Somewhat similarly to an “evolutionary tree” with shared ancestors, abused people were often abused themselves. “Breaking the chain” of trauma could also be considered a “mutation”, in that its another form of nature “rolling the dice” to see what pans out. Conversely, people with happy lives often create happy children, perpetuating the behavior.
I’ve often been perplexed by negative reactions on lemmy, and previously reddit (where I was once soundly thrashed for saying it was a nice day).