Why do people like to torture themselves?
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Hun we are addicted to boredom lol--I should go to bed too but I am mesmerized by these questions I see here...I come here to lull myself to sleep--which makes no sense because I reached my goal and still I don't want to move!! lol.Give Us Strength to find our beds!
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It's something evil within us all. I would never commit such a crime but humanity is weird. We are capable of such goodness yet we opt for emptiness. Only when I see someone attack a defenseless creature can I imagine myself capable of killing. These people are ignorant. Also, see http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/ for a miniclip of the same type of torture. I hate these people.
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It is becuse people are miserable and misery loves company. When people hurt they want others to hurt. That is why Hitler did what he did.\n\nFor more detail on this and what you can do about it to help yourself, see below site with latest psychology research on this. It is a new religion.
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An inappropriate way of redirecting their stress. If they cause themselves pain, they stop thinking about everything else that is troubling them.
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Some people with OCD or impulse control disorders do it.  Its a compulsive behavior.  Kind of like trichotillomania.
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Many reasons! Because we are unhappy with the way we look,with our jobs,with our kids,with our mates,with ourselves,it goes on and on!Sometimes we look for ways to be sad instead of being happy.Just like prisoners get institutionalised and keep going back to prison,some people get use to being miserable and they don't feel right unless their sad!!
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Why would someone want to do that?
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It is not understood really how many people actually do this but its thousands and thousands. Don't worry your not daft neither stupid. Dont listen to people that say its for attention!\n\nYoung people who self-harm have often had very difficult or painful experiences or relationships. These may include:\n\nBullying or discrimination. \nLosing someone close to them such as a parent, brother, sister or friend.\nLack of love and affection or neglect by parents or carers. \nPhysical or sexual abuse. \nA serious illness that affects the way they feel about themselves. \nOther young people may start to self-harm as a way of dealing with the problems and pressures of everyday life. Pressure can come from family, school and peer groups to conform or to perform well (for example in getting good exam results). Young people can be made to feel angry, frustrated or bad about themselves if they cannot live up to other people's expectations.\n\nYoung people who self-harm may have low self-esteem. For some this is linked to poor body image, eating disorders, or drug misuse. Understanding why young people self-harm involves knowing as much as possible about their lives and lifestyles.\n\nPeer pressures may occasionally be the most important reason for self-harm.Young people may find themselves among friends or other groups who self-harm and may be encouraged or pressurised to do the same. \n\n\nSelf-harm as a way of coping\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nExtreme feelings of fear, anger, guilt, shame, helplessness, self-hatred, unhappiness, depression or despair can build up over time. When these feelings become unbearable, self-harm can be a way of dealing with them.\n\nReasons young people have given for their self-harm include:\n\nWhen the level of emotional pressure becomes too high it acts as a safety valve - a way of relieving the tension. \nCutting makes the blood take away the bad feelings. \nPain makes them feel more alive when they feel numb or dead inside. \nPunishing themselves relieves feelings of shame or guilt. \nWhen it's too difficult to talk to anyone, it's a form of communication about their unhappiness - a way of saying they need help. \nSelf-harm is something they can control when other parts of their life may seem out of control. \n\nFeel free to ask me questions.
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Because theyre uncomfortable with themselves deep down and make up for it by hurting other people and being mean. Its really stupid, but they dont realize it alot of the time.\n\n\n\nPeace
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For many reasons. Sometimes for revenge, sometimes for spite. Sometimes by accident, and sometimes it can't be helped. (for instance, in a breakup) \n\nSome people hurt others for the pure pleasure of it. It gives them a feeling of power. \n\nThere are many people, though, who truly try not to hurt others.
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everyone of us has some sadistic characteristic (like to torture others) and masochistic (like to suffer)one,,some people have one more than the other    (normal people have it very balanced)so the chance of a woman like to be spanked is the same chance that a man like it , the same chance that she will like to spank a guy, and the same chance that aman will like it...\nDepend on what i mentioned above \n\nBy the way one of been sexually weired (of the ten chractristic of being weired ) is being sadistic or masochistic...\n\nBecause of the man culture and his demonation on women for long time  women tend to be masochistic more a little than men)
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Cause it feels good and for some people not having it is like torture for them.  This sounds like a relationship problem of some sort.
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people who feel that they have to play god and take the lives of other people so that they feel better about themselves\nterroism is sickening
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People bully others because they have low self-esteem and are aware that they are lacking something.  Others find it funny because they need some type of amusement in their boring lives and think seeing others being tortured is something to get away from the torture they are living in.
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Many of those people like to feel others pain. Because they have a shitty life, or, because ,they are either too lazy or too stupid to fix it. So they feel better about themselves when they act like they care, and many of them do care, its just that they don't know why they care, and after a very short period of time they change their definition of "caring"  from, actively finding a solution and implementing it, to something like pointing the finger and blaming others. The great thing about most of those people (for them) is that when they point the finger at the "problem"  (i.e. America is the Devil) it looks (to them) like they are pointing the finger at them selves (thus they can appear to be truly selfless) and can act like they are fighting for a solution, when really they are just trying to make themselves feel better for being incompetent in creating a solution -and in their lives for that matter-. Unfortunately Failure and self loathing are considered greatness for many.\nThat is why (at least why I think) American  wanna-be-do-gooders\nalways find the fault in America, it is too painful to find the fault in them selves, and, it is too hard to "fix" the injustice they see.\n  I, fortunately, do not suffer from this malady.\n"I do not want to feel others pain, but, I would like to cure it"....If I don't already have something better to do....
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Self preservation.  They don't want to be hurt themselves emotionally or physically.  Some don't want to be inconvienced by the victim of having to attend court dates or such.  There are very few selfless people now days and it's a same.
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Think ancient times, torture was painful. "don't want them to bite their tongues when we whip them" give them a stick to bite on....  move forward to present day.  All that bondage stuff.  Ballgags... modern-day stick in the mouth.