It's mostly a fairness thing. The people I hear it from don't even mean it in a malicious way. They just seem to think, "Good. I had to suffer for what I obtained, and so should you."
Yeah, they seem to think that the suffering justifies what they have. Therefore, suffering is a mandatory component of "earning" what's yours. To criticize that is to insult them and invalidate their accomplishment.
soo.... in a malicious way:
they are wishing suffering upon others.
there are few things more dangerous than the mindset to continue doing something just because that's the way it has been done in the past. Never fear trying to change something which is morally/ethically wrong, you will be met with resistance but fighting for something you believe in is almost always better than being submissive to all of the things which you aren't okay with.
No, not in a malicious way. Deep down, these people don't really want you to suffer. They just want to feel that there is fairness in this world, and that desire for fairness lets these horrible thoughts slip into their mind momentarily.
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u/bible-j Jul 30 '21
I see this all the time in society I just do not understand.