Does a person facing a lot of injustice has to become cutthroat in order to survive?
A lot of the reason we fall back in life is because some where we did not get the required support when we needed it the most when we were young or vulnerable. Or we faced a lot of betrayal and mental trauma. So basically the good natured person who has no malice in their heart fails to see the malice in other person's heart and suffers because of that.
I have seen some entrepreneurs and successful people who faced some childhood trauma have succeeded because they became somewhat evil or a bit of jerk themselves. Few incidences that come to my mind is Steve Jobs or recently I came across this person Chamath Palihapitiya. There are many that I can't recollect now. May be even Einstein who behaved very badly with his wife and children.
So many of these intelligent people who faced some sort of injustice earlier in life became cruel themselves. Or in the world of comics an intelligent person turned into supervillain having faced injustice.
And there are other who don't become evil but then they suffer a lot and maybe die miserably.
So I was wondering do you have to become somewhat evil to make it out of the evil you face? Please don't give very idealistic answers. I am looking for personal lived experiences. Something practical and already applied by people in their lives rather than goody goody feel good answers.