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   From: Ivan@Ivan.com   
      
   ivankalish@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > I don't think anyone has written a book on the psychology of sadism.   
   > As a Jew, I've read Jewish history and read of sadistic tortures by   
   > the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, etc.  Jews have been a target of   
   > sadism, but of course so have many other people in various   
   > circumstances.  Blacks were the victim of slavery and sadism, but I've   
   > read of extremely sadistic behavior by some people who happened to be   
   > black.  I've read of sadistic behavior by Hispanic gangs, by Russian   
   > communist interrogators, etc.   
   > I am not a sadist myself, but I have caught myself wishing terrible   
   > retribution on various people.   
   > I have noticed that there is a humor component to sadism.  Some of the   
   > things the Nazis did to the Jews involved a sick and lethal sense of   
   > humor.  There is also a component of choreography - Japanese sadists   
   > in Nanking forced Chinese to do various unmentionable things before   
   > killing them.  Similarly, at one point a set of Nazis forced Jews at   
   > gunpoint to do various sick things, and filmed it, and then shot the   
   > Jews anyway.   
   > This is all very interesting, and completely unstudied.   
   > Then there is the phenomenon of bullying.  This might seem far from   
   > sadism, but it also flies in the face of logic.  Why should a bully   
   > make the life of some classmate miserable when the classmate has done   
   > nothing to the bully and just wants to be left alone?   
   > Another interesting question is whether a certain percent of the   
   > people in any country are by nature sadistic, and whether they keep   
   > this tendency hidden when it is not approved of, but in the right   
   > circumstances the sadism comes out.  From my own experience, I think   
   > this is the case.  Also from my experience, I think that hollywood   
   > exaggerates the evil laugh of its comic book type villains, but the   
   > laugh does exist.  When a sadist is succeeding, and the victim is   
   > grasping at straws to escape, the sadist laughs.   
   > Psychotherapists and psychologists ought to take a look at this whole   
   > unexplored field.   
      
      
   Ivan....   
      
   Why is present day Israeli practicing sadism against Palestinians?   
      
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