Conflicting

An aphorism:

I can understand how comforting the afflicted makes the world a better place. Afflicting the comfortable, however, seems to do the opposite. And I can see it becoming an endless cycle, with people undoing the comforts that others have worked to create in the sincere belief that the wrong people have been relieved of their afflictions. The newly afflicted, for their part, agitate for the restoration of the old order. Perhaps the problem is that afflicting the comfortable feels like justice. But to the person who feels their comforts are justified, it feels like victimization.