Why do so many of us enjoy stories of violence and torture?
Is it because “violence” is how biological pyramid works, and human is a part of the latter, so- ” its in our genes”?
People who suffered from abuse, and/or are troubled with chronic pain and other debilitating conditions, also find the horror and the like soothing, somehow.
Or.. is it just the opposite?? Those of us who are starved by the absence of love- our only true necessity and the best healer there is- substitute by whatever mind numbing measures they can find.
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov