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how to handle abuse from family member (moved from ethics and morality)

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I wonder if you would have reacted the same if the OP hadn't seemingly dissed the blue collar life. You seem to have taken that as a personal affront.
 
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Dear Sir;

You have been on my heart for days. I apologize, for being so gruff.
I am a bricklayer, and not a social worker, for a reason.
I am very often more hurt than help.

Please don't think that I would ever suggest violece toward a parent.
I was suggesting that you walk out, change plans, walk away.

There are temptations faced by those favored among men that I have been spared.
Your father has not. He has faced those temptations and failed.
Jesus was tempted to exact revenge, and He did not fail.

You are now, again, faced with as graet a moment as the one you now lamet.
Do not fail again. Do the self-sacrificing thing. Revenge does not belong to you.
 
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I wonder if you would have reacted the same if the OP hadn't seemingly dissed the blue collar life. You seem to have taken that as a personal affront.

Not at all.
It could have gone the other way. He could have given up a trade and had to go to school.

What caught my attention was the idea that he had no other options.
That idea, that's the failure right there.
 
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