i feel like i should probably make a post. this’ll be triggering, so i’ll use the tags for warning. under the cut.
my opinion on chloris’s situation is kind of from a personal point. i don’t like to talk about it much, but i was raised in a cult. not as bad as chloris’s- we didn’t do that murder shit- but it wasn’t good. i don’t want to give more detail than that right now.
but i can acknowledge that being raised in or just in a situation like that... really fucks with you. it can be really hard to understand that you’re in a cult, because it’s not the huge sudden “BAD MORALS!” people think of about cults. people in it may not even realize it’s one, because it’s just something you... get used to. the leaders manipulate and abuse the members, but more often than not, if it’s long-running, they were raised into it, too. it’s fucked up all around.
so i don’t think i blame chloris fully. my family- i- did some bad things because of the cult we were in. i don’t know if we’d have gone to murder, but i can’t say no for sure. i think chloris can change, can unlearn things- if they’re willing.
but i also think they’re not completely blameless. you have to take responsibility for your actions, even if they were the result of something horrible. i actively try to atone for my actions from then, because even if i was manipulated into it, that doesn’t change that i did it.
i don’t know, i’m definitely sympathetic. i think we should give them a chance, and definitely think we should help them, because recovery isn’t easy on your own. but i don’t think we should baby them.