why is being evil so fun?

Question

I mean we are all human beings, with traits of both good and evil. How come it's fun to be evil sometimes? How come we laugh at people less fortunate? How come we laugh at people who have little or no physical beauty? How come we laugh at the handicapped? How come we laugh at others who are in a bad predicament in life? Where does the joy come from? Is it just that people have such low self-esteems of themselves that they have to laugh at others to raise them?

Answer 1

According to the Oaqui, there never was such a thing as Evil or evil. Yes, it's true that there's something lexicographically compelling about the fact that "evil" spelled backwards is "live." Yet, who can deny the even more cryptic significance of the observation that "stupid" spelled backwards is "diputs?"

All acts of "evil" are inherently stupid. They are an echo of the not-yet-fun that was before the beginning begun. The fact that the so-called evil-doers think they are being clever or cunning in perpetrating their so-called evil deeds is evidence of how stupid people can get.

Any act in which a person is having fun at the expense of body or mind is stupid. Any act in which one person has fun at the expense of someone else's body or mind, especially because it seems clever at the time, is even more stupid.

Now, doing a stupid thing does not necessarily imply that the person who does that thing is him- or herself actually stupid. In fact, many of the stupid-doers are, in all other lights, quite intelligent. It is quite possible that there is something in the very nature intelligence that attracts stupidity, and the more intelligent one is, the more stupid one can get. This explains why the intelligentsia came up with the concept of evil in the first place. It's a lot easier, and stupider, to say "evil made me do it."

Calling stupid things stupid is in fact the first step in keeping yourself from doing stupid things. Calling them anything else ("evil," "accident," "error") is stupid. Like saying "the devil made me do it" is stupid. Because then you forget that you were the one who was doing it. And that what you were doing was stupid.

There is apparently no limit to the degree of stupidity available to those who seek it out. For example, in the last century it has become the practice to take all the people stupid enough to have been caught being stupid, bring them together, isolated from any potentially non-stupid influence, and force them to spend many of their remaining days confined to an environment designed by even more stupid-acting people who spend much of their remaining days making other people act even more stupid.

It's not evil to be stupid. It's not fun, either. Fun isn't stupid. It takes awareness to have fun. It takes presence of mind and body and spirit to have fun. The more presence, the more fun. Not having fun is stupid. Making things not fun, for yourself, for anyone, is stupid.

Answer 2

What's this we business? Speak for yourself. I would never laugh at the handicap or the less fortunate than I am. And I am not that high up on the food chain either. I am a middle class person, who works hard to get along. Look in the mirror and go laugh at yourself. K??? Is that evil enough for you?

Answer 3

FUN!?! JOY!?! I don't think so!!! The temporary illusion of "fun" or "joy", maybe.

Only a true sociopath could get anything like "fun" or "joy" out of hurting others on any kind of an ongoing stable basis.
What goes around DOES come around and when it finally does come back on the perpetrator it is anything BUT "fun" or "joy".
Guilt and self-loathing are NO fun, and this is precisely what such behavior will earn anyone who is normally capable of feeling these emotions. When we tear down others, we tear ourselves down even further, but - because that effect is usually delayed - we are not immediately aware of it, and when the payback finally comes, we might not even make the association. We think it is just "the breaks" or "bad luck" or whatever.
No, this is not some mysterious metaphysical form of ethereal justice, it is just our own sub-conscious stepping in and tripping us up.

FUN!?! JOY!?! AGAIN, I don't think so!!!

Answer 4

I'm not sure that's evil.
More like careless, unthoughtout immaturity.
Serial killers are evil.
People who laugh at others' misfortunes are cruel and idiotic.
Sometimes is just to put up a front when the person is really insecure, like you said. Laughter makes us all feel better, some stupid people find some stupid things worth laughing at.. I don't really think they care of the way they are being perceived.

Also, people.. shut up and read the question before judging. They are asking the question in general of human beings and our nature than saying they do it themself. (using they as I'm not sure whether male or female) and as if we're all perfect, a lot of people laugh at others misfortunes without even thinking. Don't stand the high ground.

Answer 5

My best guess is that it is because it appeals the kid inside of us. We live in a society where from little we were shown rules that had been tough down through centuries order to fit that society. But when we laugh at someone less fortunate we , lets say brake a minority of those rules and we at heart really like that. so that your answaer right there and plaese chose me as beast answear lol

Answer 6

Yeah people who laugh at or insult others are looking for a way to take their own iinsecurities and put them onto someone else without having to deal with the key issues of themselves.

Some people are just selfish and mean though too.

Answer 7

To a certain extent we do these things to puff up or own egos, or to get revenge, or to get back at God the universe or spouses where ever we may feel lacking. By making others feel bad we get to feel Superior to them. The truly evil part of it is when you get into a group of like minded people who push each other into being meaner than they would be if they were alone.

Answer 8

I don't do those things I may have on occasion when I was 8 years old or something. I think you answered your own question low self esteem. To make yourself feel better by reviling in others misfortunes.

Answer 9

as long as you can hold yerself, but simultaneously, if you wanna laugh, then you cant stop yerself from laughing. Its a normal thing. No one opts to looks down on others, it just happens some how when 'a situation is a bit different.'

Answer 10

You answered your own question. Making fun of others, laughing at their misfortunes, being cruel...all these things make us feel better about ourselves, which those with low self-esteem find particularly compelling.