Unfortunately, the rest of us must live with the resulting fallout and with the effects of the process. I don't hold it against the young or young at heart who sense a form of kinship with her.
I suppose it's my innate and single-minded sense of self-preservation at play, but I've never understood those who just as single-mindedly throw down the gauntlet for dear Julia. I brushed it off as a manifestation of the adult sense of protecting a child, and some cases it might be. But others have me wondering at their mental state, if they're not affected by some form of trauma bonding with their captors. My biases might simply be showing in that thought process.
[CW: Misanthropy, trauma bonding mentioned]
I suppose it's my innate and single-minded sense of self-preservation at play, but I've never understood those who just as single-mindedly throw down the gauntlet for dear Julia. I brushed it off as a manifestation of the adult sense of protecting a child, and some cases it might be. But others have me wondering at their mental state, if they're not affected by some form of trauma bonding with their captors. My biases might simply be showing in that thought process.