RL>  AT> That's Bjorn. He got a piece of pie than fell on the floor, so now he
 RL>  AT> wants everyone to have a smashed piece of of pie with hair and
 RL>  AT> footprints on it. And the whole time he'll claim "it's better to have
 RL>  AT> pie like this."
 RL> 
 RL> Which is another trait these people have:  They want you to make the same
 RL> (usually bad) decisions that they made in order to validate that they
 RL> made the right decisions.

I didn't think of it like that until now, but that makes sense. It brings them peace in knowing that other people are suffering the same misery. That's why it's probably not nice to use the phrase "You are not alone."

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)