The bloodlust and cruelty is the point.
So we should do the "civil" thing and be reasonable by meeting them half-way... So a little bit of bloodlust and cruelty is the balanced and sensible approach? How about we try and talk to these people, and be more inclusive? /s
I mean there's one kind of culture in America where bloodlust and cruelty is the point, but then there's the other side of America that tolerates it as "just one of those things." "I don't like it, but it is what it is, therefore it is acceptable."
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Teenage drug use is very dangerous, but fixable with a lot of work and TLC. Even the most sober teenage brain on SM however, breaks them on a deeper psychological level that is almost impossible to reverse unless social society as a whole moves away from SM.