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Hurt people hurt people.
These kinds of phrasings unhelpfully oversimplify real issues that some people struggle with.
I don’t really think that’s the point. It suggests that a lot of trauma in someone's life can result in difficulty having normal relationships and interactions with people. That’s a perfectly valid position even if simply stated. There’s no need to enumerate the list of causes in casual conversation.
It also helps nothing to say a cliche phrasing that's been said for a heck of a long time. It's so simple and repetitious at this point that in a way it devalues the seriousness of the issue.
There are certainly enough people who grew up with immense privilege who have no problem hurting other people. Are they traumatized? I mean, we can’t rule out the possibility.
On the other hand, have they been cushioned from the painful consequences their own actions have on others? Absolutely.
I wonder if it is more used by people that don't want to accept suffering as a base for all humans cause the only people that repeat that phrase to me are ones that don't want to make allowances for hurt people to exist in their world.
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Oh yeah they do. Have you heard:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
i did 🙂
but lemmy needs content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
I have but I can never remember what the archaic meanings of half the buffaloes are. Also I thought one of the verb buffalo was supposed to be past tense.
There is only 3 uses of the word there actually. The location, the animal, and the act of bullying or pushing others.
So it's locational buffalo are also bullying Buffalo buffaloes who happen to also bully Buffalo buffalo beneath them.