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when i was little i used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always fun until you realize somethings getting hurt. It would be one thing to be a loser if it meant no one paid attention to you, but in school, it means your actively sought out. Your the slug and they're holding all the salt. And they haven't developed a conscience. There's a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It's when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is just self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it's banded together against an enemy. It doesn't matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you- you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself. You know why salt works on slugs? Because it dissolves in the water that's part of the slugs skin, so the water inside it's body starts to flow out. The slug dehydrates, this works with snails too. And with leeches. And with people like me. With any creature, really, too thin-skinned to stand up for itself.
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