Just thinking....
With every bone in my body I have never been able to fathom why people find it a rewarding and almost powerful feeling to step up on there high horse and degrade other people. Who can have such a emotional wall built up that they are completely desensitized to the fact that they are hurting someone else? Who can do this to a family or friend and know they will continue to see this person after they hurt them? What kind of outcome do they expect? ...Or want? Or do they not care because the feeling they get is all worth it in the moment.
Maybe they are too stupid to think that anything will come of it? It's ok to kick people when they are already on the ground. Chances are they are working so hard to get them self back up, that if "I" kick them once or twice they won't have enough balance to fight back. But I'm not talking about the people who just thoroughly enjoy hurting individuals for shits and giggles, I'm talking about the ones who do it to make them self feel better. Those people who think they are winning in life because everyone else around them is suffering and they feel great.
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in most cases the people who act like you are describing are people who have something that is haunting them. It is something that is making them feel like a failure which in their mind is unacceptible so if they can find someone and make them seem less than they then in that they can feel better about themselves. It is a very flawed outlook, but unfortunatelly there are so many poeple in this world who honestly have no clue who they really are, they just go about their lives looking at others rather than themselves. By doing so they have no face to look at in the mirror and without a face looking back at you when you are alone, you cant blame anyone but everyone else. Those of us like you and i who do know who we are, won\'t do that to others because when we do, we have to look at ourselves knowing what we have done and thus the guilt sets in. Hence no reward for us to do these sorts of things. Honestly given the choice of the two, i would rather stay the one with the face :D we are good people and it is better to know that, than to never know who we are.