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> I've had to take training sessions that left me feeling ...hateful, to be honest.

And that, right there, is how the history books end up filled with horrors like the gassing of Jews. Couldn't happen again? Well, that's the mechanism as to how such things occur. Probably not Jews next time, but some Other; like white men.

I heard an anecdote from a monk once. He knew someone into activism, trying to save something-or-other, I don't remember what. Then, one day, the monk opened a book, and to his utter astonishment there was a picture of the guy. He was in charge of executions.

Great atrocities are perpetrated in the name of righteous anger.

To quote Nietzsche: if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.