Personality Traits You Hate

There is nothing that I cannot tolerate more than people who are cruel to others, people who hurt others, either physically or emotionally for their own pleasure. Every time I see it I can only feel a sense of anger and bewilderment. I simply cannot understand the motivations of the abuser or how they could derive such pure, almost childlike enjoyment from others' misfortune and misery.

Even in my own church, I see these types of people. And what hurts even more, is that there really is nothing that I can do to stop them. People do not want others disciplining their unruly children, (because that would imply that they can't do it themselves) and the adult offenders are often higher-ups within the church itself and can commit this type of behavior with impunity.

So I simply try to be as kind as possible to the victims. And even to the offenders themselves. Kindness is very important to me. In fact, I might make a post about that in this thread's companion thread.

Other than that, I can get along with the vast majority of people. Annoying people, passive people, loud people, slow people, people who talk too much or too little, assholes, jerks, I'm fine with all of them. But I simply can't tolerate cruel people in my presence.

Jam it back in, in the dark.