[Geek44]

I agree Paul. But it's a complex set of issues. I also find the idea that anyone actually 'enjoys' making anything suffer hard to digest. I can remember indulging in some violence against a kid much younger than I was when I was around the age of four. I was with my older friend. Nothing serious, but we beat this younger kid up a little...enough to make him cry. I've thought about this constantly since...because I'm ashamed of it. I didn't 'enjoy' it at the time and I doubt my older friend did either. Knowing myself pretty well, if I'd enjoyed it, I'd still be beating folks up today. I think a kind of 'group' mentality kicks in...things start off pretty harmless, but then they escalate and nobody wants to be the one to put the brakes on. In extreme cases, somebody ends up dead. As a rule of thumb, the group is always a quarter as smart and rational as the individuals who make up the group. (Those are my own figures...feel free to tweak 'em). It only takes one bigot with a big mouth to get a lynch mob fired up eh?
All I can say is, I'm glad I'm not a judge.