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Cognitive dissonance is a terrible phenomenon as it can put all of our fates as humans at risk, especially for a person that has dealt with trauma and abuse. Yes we are all responsible for our choices, but sometimes those choices are often autopilot actions. People have road rage, humans don't treat others the way they want to be treated, someone can accidentally bump into somebody or step on their shoe by accident and suddenly people are ready to kill over such miniscule split second happenings! Which is unfortunate because people don't WANT to do bad things to other people.. at least not intentionally I think. But sometimes "good" people end up doing things that they regret and it's an unfortunate result of cognitive dissonance, and cognitive dissonance existing within a person who has dealt with trauma or abuse seems to be the main reason why the abused, often times, become the abuser. It's a result of the person not knowing how to handle the emotions resulting from the trauma. So in a given, sudden, situation that causes a certain stress or trigger, the person is at risk of defaulting into mirroring or reenacting their abuse experience, even though it goes against their true morals and even if its not with malintent. Cognitive dissonance can have it to where a person is aware of conflicting views or desires but not knowing what to do with them. So the persons reaction to the cognitive dissonance may be stress, crying spells, anxiety, isolation, depression or worsening depression, and it can keep people trapped in drug abuse or cause people to start abusing drugs and new development of other mental health complications or, as foretold, reenacting or mirroring the abuse. A very unfortunate fate.