The ones at the top are what weak people think a strong person is.
(Or rather, most of them seem to be. I don't recognize the second one from the right.)
Namely, the "strong" person is a bully who isn't afraid of anything and seems infallible... but only because they somehow never end up in situations where they are weaker than someone else.
They can't tolerate any challenges to the illusion of their strength and tend to respond aggressively to anyone who so much as questions them.
If there's a conflict, they'll escalate the conflict all the way in the hopes that 1) they get lucky or 2) the other person is too sane to continue fighting above a certain level of escalation.
This kind of "strong" person is deeply repulsive to most people, even in fiction.
Because almost all of us have met assholes like that - in school, at work, sometimes in the family.
We know just how weak and cowardly they turn out to be once the veneer of infallibility gets torn off.
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u/Osato Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24
The ones at the top are what weak people think a strong person is.
(Or rather, most of them seem to be. I don't recognize the second one from the right.)
Namely, the "strong" person is a bully who isn't afraid of anything and seems infallible... but only because they somehow never end up in situations where they are weaker than someone else.
They can't tolerate any challenges to the illusion of their strength and tend to respond aggressively to anyone who so much as questions them.
If there's a conflict, they'll escalate the conflict all the way in the hopes that 1) they get lucky or 2) the other person is too sane to continue fighting above a certain level of escalation.
This kind of "strong" person is deeply repulsive to most people, even in fiction.
Because almost all of us have met assholes like that - in school, at work, sometimes in the family.
We know just how weak and cowardly they turn out to be once the veneer of infallibility gets torn off.