Why We Enjoy the Suffering of Others.

[Mindful]

The tricoteuses point to a dreadful truth about the suffering of others: that we enjoy it. We are relieved by it; it makes our day. We need you to fail, we hope ardently you might – and it will be an ecstatic moment if you ever do so. We will show up with a gang and point and laugh, we will remark on your clothing and your hairstyle as you march up the steps, we won’t care a jot that you were once a child and that you have goodness still in your soul; we will latch on to every reason to believe in your outsize wickedness, we’ll trust in the rumours, we won’t scrutinise the allegations, you won’t appear in any way human to us any more – and our hearts will stay cold as your neck is placed in a wooden holder and a razor-sharp blade ruptures your arteries.

By what mysterious process do humans become like this? What needs to happen to a newborn to turn them, over the years, into a tricoteur? If only the journey were more arduous or uncommon. All that seems to be required to fill up the mind with reserves of vengeance and fury is a steady drip feed of humiliation, of a kind every life is always likely to provide. We have all been made sufficiently unhappy not to gain extraordinary respite and satisfaction from the downfalls of others.

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[Bleipriester]

I don´t.

 

[danielpalos]

I enjoy practicing full body massage with Happy ending and g-spot focus work with women because I enjoy helping them overcome their Bad attitudes and become sugar and spice and everything nice. xoxo

 

[occupied]

You can leave me out of your "we". I've never understood sadism and it seems I never will. The best I can do is to feel a little satisfaction when the universe puts an ironic end to some else's sadistic bullshit.

 

[Mindful]

I enjoy practicing full body massage with Happy ending and g-spot focus work with women because I enjoy helping them overcome their Bad attitudes and become sugar and spice and everything nice. xoxo

Not again.

I think you got lost.

 

[sparky]

There is nothing worse than watching the life drain out of some poor souls eyes , and knowing there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it

~S~

 

[Bleipriester]

"We" are also racists in disguise, do gooders claim, excluding themselves from their suspicion.

 

[Mindful]

I don´t.

Don’t make it personal.

 

[danielpalos]

Not again.

I think you got lost.

You need a better attitude, dear.

 

[Bleipriester]

Don’t make it personal.

What else is it about? Everyone is evil except for the actual audience? Bad people will always be around, no need to generalize. Most are simply unconcerned.

 

[Mindful]

Bad people will always be around

Not necessarily bad.

Maybe broken, damaged.

 

[Bleipriester]

Not necessarily bad.

Maybe broken, damaged.

Some have experienced suffering and maltreatment during childhood. That is a major reason for people to become bad.
Also, some have learned they are above others. Those also can tend to maltreat others.
But many are simply bad. They have indeed no other reason but the joy they feel when others suffer.

 

[Mindful]

But many are simply bad. They have indeed no other reason but the joy they feel when others suffer.

There’s much gleeful Schadenfreude on USMB.

 

[Bleipriester]

There’s much gleeful Schadenfreude on USMB.

There is. But that is not to be confused with real nastiness. It´s political and non-virtual at all. We are not really at each others´ throats here.

 

[Crepitus]

The tricoteuses point to a dreadful truth about the suffering of others: that we enjoy it. We are relieved by it; it makes our day. We need you to fail, we hope ardently you might – and it will be an ecstatic moment if you ever do so. We will show up with a gang and point and laugh, we will remark on your clothing and your hairstyle as you march up the steps, we won’t care a jot that you were once a child and that you have goodness still in your soul; we will latch on to every reason to believe in your outsize wickedness, we’ll trust in the rumours, we won’t scrutinise the allegations, you won’t appear in any way human to us any more – and our hearts will stay cold as your neck is placed in a wooden holder and a razor-sharp blade ruptures your arteries.

By what mysterious process do humans become like this? What needs to happen to a newborn to turn them, over the years, into a tricoteur? If only the journey were more arduous or uncommon. All that seems to be required to fill up the mind with reserves of vengeance and fury is a steady drip feed of humiliation, of a kind every life is always likely to provide. We have all been made sufficiently unhappy not to gain extraordinary respite and satisfaction from the downfalls of others.

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Sounds like a load of projection to me.

 

[danielpalos]

...any women want to come over and just get used, for the heck of it?

 

[lg325]

Growing up my relatives and classmates all seem to get a kick out of seeing me lose or get hurt. And losing to me was so traumatic they were sent to their child therapist. I do not like seeing people get badly hurt even in a sporting event.

 

[Mindful]

There is. But that is not to be confused with real nastiness. It´s political and non-virtual at all. We are not really at each others´ throats here.

You’d be surprised at the lengths some people will go to. Data mining, hacking emails and Facebook.......

I could tell you some stories.

 

[Mindful]

...any women want to come over and just get used, for the heck of it?

Not by you. Even for the heck of it.

 

[Mindful]

Sounds like a load of projection to me.

It would.