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RE: We Like to Watch Others Suffer
Generally speaking people don't enjoy the suffering of others even if they have somehow caused it.When people enjoy the suffering of others it is because they are not very well off themselves.Usually they tend to ethisize they joy of seeing others suffering(e.g with moral superiority etc).Do you think that those who enjoy the religious punishment of people or animals are having a great life?I will give you an example.During middle ages burning a cat for religious reasons was considered highly entertaining in france[1]( probably by people who weren't very well off which was most of the people).I have passed from the transition myself and perhaps i overgeneralize this reason..
1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-burning
Cat-burning
Cat burning was a form of entertainment in France prior to the 1800s. In this form of entertainment, people would gather dozens of cats in a net and hoist them high into the air from a special bundle onto a bonfire causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat. In the medieval and early modern periods, cats, which were associated with vanity and witchcraft, were sometimes burned as symbols of the Devil.
I was thinking to include the cat burning example myself but i prefer to keep my posts simple and with no references.
Indeed, like i mentioned above, nobody wishes for someone else to suffer but it becomes a necessity due to the fact that most people in this life suffer themselves and they tend to associate this causality to the people around them.
Living is for the most part suffering and since our peers are the ones that effectively change and manipulate the world is easier to wish to someone ill -- if we somehow connect the dots that they are the cause of our own suffering
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