A while ago I sat together with my 2 roommates and one of them told us a story from his time in high school about how a girl in his year was caught on video giving a blowjob to security guard, I'm assuming while she was really drunk. According to him, it took only a day until the entire school knew about the video and he gleefully added that pretty much the whole county had seen the video shortly afterwards and through word of mouth knew who she was.
Now mind you, what she did was extremely stupid and dangerous, but it wasn't something that was morally wrong. I don't know what exactly happened to her afterwards, but from the sounds of it I'd imagine she was the target of a ton of shaming and psychological terror. My roommate isn't some conservative christian type either, in fact he often complains about the churches in this country and their backwardness, and yet he very clearly took great joy in being able to take part in that kind of shaming, regardless of the reason.
He is often like that. As soon as somebody has in some way contributed to their own suffering he'll immediately declare: "Well, it's his/her fault, no pity for them." and you can tell it makes him rock hard to say that. Doesn't matter what might have driven that somebody to do that or whether the repercussions they faced were appropriate to what they did, the only thing that matters is that he gets to bang his fist on the table and feel righteous. And the worst part is that there are so many people like him.
I dunno, for some reason this popped into my head today and it really fucks me up to think about that. People like him are at their core very sadistic and cruel for no reason other than their own enjoyment, regardless of what other motivation they may pretend to have. They just wait for an opportunity to beat down on someone and humiliate them. Nothing forces them to and they could prevent so much additional suffering if they just held themselves back a little bit, but nah, that would mean taking a look at themselves and missing out on an opportunity to be a piece of shit...
Shit like that is part of the reason why I want to ctb, tbqh.