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Aswad -> RE: What makes you a sadist? Nature or Nurture? (10/16/2012 2:52:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
Was it life experiences that created it or do you feel it is simply a part of the innate personality you were born with?
Nature. In fact, nurture is what made me suppress it for ages.
I'm trying to come up with some sort of time frame for awakening, but I can't. The desire to inflict has been there all along. The enjoyment of the suffering of others has been there as long as I've had any sense of empathy. Always liked to see the other kids cry. I just never did anything to cause it from someone that hadn't asked for it, one way or the other, by my reckoning at the time (which I like to think was on the mature side). Still don't.
Bullying, people get to varying degrees. Too much, or too little (yes, there is such a thing), is detrimental to a child's development. Mobbing, that you mostly get when you have positive qualities your peers don't have (and it's more commonly experienced by adults), and it is exclusively negative AFAICT. Neither of the two are apt to cause sadism, I think. And I doubt they are particularly effective at awakening it, though they may provide the "permission slip" to fantasize, which might nurture it if one has already awakened it.
ETA: Anecdotally, I got both bullying and mobbing. Put a stop to the former. Curbed the latter.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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