(Punishment part 2)

It’s very easy to become addicted to punishing people and things…

Abuse (or, repeatdly targetting individuals, groups or things with violence and aggression) is basically an addiction to doling out punishment…

Abusers literally get high off of punishing things. Abusers experience great senses of relief and satisfaction whenever they’re allowed to inflict injury onto things, or strip other people and values of autonomy and worth, by imposing their own senses of justice onto the people and things they hold contempt for. They get high off of injuring things with violence and aggresion.

The desire to punish things or see things punished is (in the most literal sense of the word) a form of addiction.

Rapists are addicted to punishing people with sex. Tyrany is an addiction to punishing people or things with terror, withholding or physical violence. An abusive parent or mate is literally a “garden-variety” addict. In other words, they get an actual physiological high from punishing those they target with violence and aggression.

A slaughterhouse worker who enjoys abusing animals is fundamentally no different than a police officer, a soldier, or an abusive parent or mate who gets a sense of satisfaction, fulfilment and joy from inflicting injury and terror onto those they perceive to be inferior to them.

For instance, a rapist’s main pursuit is not sexual gratification. Sadly, the rapist’s real addiction is to punishing their victims with sex. In fact, rapists get more satisfaction from the idea injuring and taking from others than they do from the sexual climax itself — though, they’d probably fail to make that distinction. Yo…

Addictions make people stupid — and by stupid I mean mentally lazy. The reason for this is because with addicitons, people rarely see or think beyond the hunger. All they really want the quickest and most direct and potent way to satisfy their addictions. When you’re an addict, you don’t really think about the consequences of your choices beyond the fix. So when it comes to the addictions of punishing things and/or seeing things punished, people who fixate on the punishement of others are basically just as mentally unstable and absent-minded as individuals who are addicted to methamphetamine or crack.

An addict is an addict.

(Continued in next post…)