It's not something about "being proud of", it's about simply instilling fear into others. If you are living in the harsh and hostile environment, then the only real law what is working is a law of natural selection, where strong survives and weak ones become prey. If government can't protect you by whatever reasons and you have a plenty of enemies, while you don't have any "influential friends" to protect you, then your only protection is fear of your enemy. Which makes them think twice before they try to cross your path. Why there is no "Protectors"? Because usually it's believed, that if you are a good person, then you are a weak person and a weakness is like an unforgivable sin. This statement is partly true, since human morality mostly inspired in humans by influence of society, so if you have no morals or they are very different from the rest, then you are very independent, independence = power, power = good, weakness = bad. What's the way how these people thinks. 

1 hour ago, Hoborat said:

It's not something about "being proud of", it's about simply instilling fear into others. If you are living in the harsh and hostile environment, then the only real law what is working is a law of natural selection, where strong survives and weak ones become prey. If government can't protect you by whatever reasons and you have a plenty of enemies, while you don't have any "influential friends" to protect you, then your only protection is fear of your enemy. Which makes them think twice before they try to cross your path. Why there is no "Protectors"? Because usually it's believed, that if you are a good person, then you are a weak person and a weakness is like an unforgivable sin. This statement is partly true, since human morality mostly inspired in humans by influence of society, so if you have no morals or they are very different from the rest, then you are very independent, independence = power, power = good, weakness = bad. What's the way how these people thinks. 

< I agree with said.

> I purposely used "proud to be bad" in this context too because I heard idiots bragging about doing mischief and they were very proud of it.

51 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

< I agree with said.

> I purposely used "proud to be bad" in this context too because I heard idiots bragging about doing mischief and they were very proud of it.

There are those that lose themselves to that aspect of the world and in turn learn to revel in it rather than pursue an exit from their precarious situation.

Partly losing sight of what they sought, leaving them unable to fully cross that bridge once the opportunity presents itself thus becoming stagnant, one foot on each side of that hypothetical bridge that could crumble from the strong current of its river at any given moment - the hypothetical river being the world, society, authorities, denying these bridge trolls' now most often corrupt ways of achieving prosperity.

And there's also the little dumbasses that don't know better than trouble others because that's in their twisted lane of fun.

20 minutes ago, Idyll said:

And there's also the little dumbasses that don't know better than trouble others because that's in their twisted lane of fun.

Yeah (democratic) society is collapsing/collapsed already. It's nihilism. The worst part is that the police, law, corporate capital and politics are full of people 'who love to be bad' but they are just more savvy at hiding it. You can't kill hundreds of thousands of people with your drugs (pharmaceutical companies) or bomb nations into dust (war hawks) or corrupt whole institutions (activism) unless you take a vast amount of pleasure doing those activities.

They do evil because they enjoy it, it feels good and comes naturally to them. If there are saints then why shouldn't there be sadists? It's just mathematics, statistics.

Evil people (who love creating misery) will just keep going and getting bolder until they are stopped. Then they will cry that they were 'persecuted.'

27 minutes ago, RohZima said:

Evil people (who love creating misery) will just keep going and getting bolder until they are stopped. Then they will cry that they were 'persecuted.'

> Indeed. That happened few times in my Prince's cases when he and my Ivy punished them. For me, it is cowardly act.