Oftentimes people earn the fudged-up shit that happens to them throughout their life. Abusive parents who were abused, for example. When you have a fudged-up childhood, you have two choices: Continue the legacy of the person who did it to you, and do it to your kids -OR- transcend it and become a better person because you've experienced the evil that it was. At some point, if you choose to continue the legacy, you earn every bit of abuse you got as a child. There's far more adults in our society that fit this bill in our society than we'd like to admit, and any other place I'd point out that some of them even read this, but the meme-oriented community is a tiche more self-aware than most...