Here's a thought: When people are in pain, why do many people find the easiest way to relieve pain is by causing pain?
My initial reaction would be that this is an example of the statement 'mistery loves company'. By causing pain, the person can ensure that there is someone else who is suffering just as much as they are.
My second hypothesis is that the person needed the sense of being in control. Pain that is inflicted upon a person is generally not in control of the person, but inflicting pain is (in the control of that person, I mean). The ability to cause pain can lend a false sense of power and security--a feel-good that will counter the pain that he/she is feeling.
It may be one of the above, or a mix of both, part of both, or neither. However, I'm also contemplating the fact that pain is also a sort of energy or, at least, it is something that can release energy very well. People can do extraordinary things under pain and pain as an energy reliever is possibly only second to the thing we call 'desperation'. Causing pain is a way to relieve the person of that energy and it works well because it is the same sort of energy/feeling (pain to pain, how nice). Of course we'd all rather the person just get some sort of therapeutic (sp?) hobby, such as gardening or painting, for example, but that is neither here nor there. I am mainly toying with the idea of sadists as excellent affectors AND receivers of pain, that they act as a conductor in the overal idea.
Or would it be more accurate to say that they act like a funnel, gathering all the little misdeads from the world and concentrating them into attention focuses on a few people?
If humans are naturally sadistic
Because and therefore: for as long as the conductors work, there will always be pain.
(*note- Just to make it very, very obvious, I'm not just refering to physical neural impulses here.)
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