He's right, you know

All of these serve a purpose.

All pain serves a purpose. It is not given to you to know the mind of God. BAKA at the presumption desu

In the same way a serial murder or a crime of passion have purpose: they make the enactor feel good.

Hurting others also has a purpose, which is enjoyment, even if it has no other purpose.

I've yet to hear about an actual senseless killing committed by somebody who isn't mentally impaired.

He's right about this.

"Life itself is a sea full of rocks and whirlpools that man avoids with the greatest caution and care, although he knows that, even when he success with all his efforts and ingenuity in struggling through, at every step he comes nearer to the greatest, the total, inevitable and irremediable shipwreck, indeed even steers right on to it, namely death. This is the final goal of the wearisome voyage, and is worse for him than all the rocks that he has avoided."

---The world as will and representation, Schopenhauer

How does beating your kid or wife or torturing an animal serves a purpose?

Anything a creature does triggers the reward system in some way otherwise they wouldn't be moved to do it.

I feel like we define being a senseless killer as a kind of insanity by default.

>post starts with a presumption
>proceeds to accuse user of being presumptuous
thank God it's bait!

In some cases, yes.

Sometime we do not know the 'purpose' until much later but all actions have that basic purpose you mentioned.

He thought of that one while fucking his poodle, you know.

what about the cats that brutalize their prey before ending them? what is the purpose?

>Implying existence is better than non-existence

false
i have watched, on multiple occasions, cats toying with their prey, before decapitating it
not hunting it, mind you
no, the chase was over - the prey was already wounded and unable to escape

I think he's saying we should cause pain to those who have no other purpose (than to cause pain)?

In addition to dolphin rape, otters will rape baby seals to death.

Dolphins will also gang up on small porpoises and kill them so they can play with their corpses.

No it doesn't imply that at all. Why do you think this? He is saying that human life is fucked because we spend all our time struggling against tiny hazards all the while heading towards an inevitable huge hazard that we can never maneuver. He was trying to explain why existence is awful.

He's not mistaken, you understand.

my jack russel loves tearing rats, cats, rabbits and gerbils apart for no other reason than his own enjoyment.

yeserday i saw a magpie peck the fuck out of a baby blackbird for no reason...it didn't eat it

porpoise bodies wash up on the beach with their ribs smashed in after getting attacked by flipper and his chums

What purpose does a cat have playing with its food?

What purpose does it serve to shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane?

to make sure he's dead, i suppose

magpie nipping resource competition in the bud

jack russels are high energy hunting dogs, fucking with prey animals is what he was bred to do.

deep

>human being is the only animal that can fly to the moon
>human being is the only animal that can make ice cream in 31 different flavors
>human being is the only animal that can masturbate 7 times in one today strictly to japanime 2D trans-interspecies tentacle porn

what a stupid quote.

AAAAAAAAGHHHHH SAVE ME PROUST

Now that I think about it, this is probably too daring a synthesis

Not true --cats also do this. QED.

you're a big cat

What purpose does it serve getting caught? is it just part of a bigger plan?

He was right about literally everything.

Stoics would say that it's your reaction to an event that causes the harm, not the event in itself.

But he was wrong: Schadenfreude.