lj-writes reblogged
Some of you really think suffering conveys moral authority and it shows
Responses to suffering can be noble. Suffering itself is just suffering. What are you even saying, that torturers, rapists, and abusers do their victims a favor by ennobling them in the purifying fire of pain? That’s fucked up.
And if you answer the argument that X is an abuser with “X is an abuse survivor how dare u!!!” then congratulations, you have engaged in a complete non sequitur. Abusers and abuse victims are not mutually exclusive classes of “complete monsters” vs. “people” my God please grow up.
#my annoyance finally overrunneth and has overcome my good sense evidently#abuse apologism#abuse discourse#suffering as morality#cultural christianity#this also has to do with#ben solo apologism#catra apologism#probably a bunch of other fandoms and discourses i'm not even aware of#abuse tw#rape tw#torture tw#and furthermore