Victim of bullying
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The action of the husband chopping off his wife's hand because she refused to stop studying is, indeed, shocking. However, it is the natural consequence of the way some parents bring up children. When wrong behaviour is not corrected but indulged, then their very sense of identity comes to depend on others submitting to their will. When anyone prevents them from doing what they want to do or even questions it, they cannot bear it. Thus whoever stands in their way becomes, automatically, a 'Bad Person' whom they think are justified to be punished. Naturally, they never apologise as they cannot see what wrong they have committed. I have recently heard of a senior official, when discussing nursing education, say that 'we could never have nurses who were well-trained, because then they would not comply with whatever the doctors might want them to do.' This is exactly the same mindset! Why is it unthinkable that people can work with someone who is capable of disagreeing on professional grounds? The truth is that mature people do not mind positive criticism as that leads to better practice! Badly brought-up children, who think they can do no wrong and must always get their own way, are condemned to perpetual childishness which, in an adult, can lead to vicious as well as stupid behaviour. But, as always, underneath the badness is the sadness. They are truly pitiable.
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