CronoDAS comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

39 Post author: taw 16 July 2009 03:41PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 July 2009 11:20:36PM 3 points [-]

consider it to be perpetuated because the victims feel like they've earned the right to revenge - even though said revenge is enacted on the wrong parties (the next incoming group, rather than the previous group that abused them).

In my high school, one of my classmates offered pretty much this exact justification for hazing freshmen.