Pain

Pain is caused mostly by ignorance, greed, and ego. Take the recent cases of a douche bag and a scumbag. The douche bag is a hypocrite. He self-righteously admonished others for using obscene language in a forum. And then lo and behold, he posted a filthy sex joke comparing a porthole of a cruise ship cabin to a human female sex orifice. When you confronted him about that, he turned out not only a hypocrite but also a coward because he didn't take ownership of the joke. Instead, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to discuss about his hypocrisy. You are sure he is still in pain for losing face. His pain was self-induced for being self-righteous and power-hungry. Needless to say, you are now looking at him as being no more than a piece of shit for he had no sense of honor.

The other case involving a scumbag was quite hilarious. He used somebody else's words in attacking you. You countered that by avoiding frontal assault of dismantling your views by using his own counterarguments, but by using the words of others instead of coming up with his own words, he was not honorable if not downright cowardly. You later expressed your contempt and repugnance for his renunciation of his ethnic background by getting rid of the names given to him by his parents at his birth and completely taking some stupid names that have no relationship to his ethnic background. Names are important for self-identity. By hiding behind some made-up names which have nothing to do with his ancestry, the scumbag proved he was hopelessly alienated and uncomfortable of being who he was. Of course, you always have contempt for creatures like him, those who have no pride of who they are and where they come from.

Douche bags and scumbags out there should have realized that there was a psychic pain in attacking you because you would counter-attack fiercely. You don't go around and attack others without provocations. You could have taken a high road and ignored the douche bags and scumbags and assholes in this world because they are so numerous. They breed like rats and pigs. But your silence would be misconstrued by them that they were right and righteous in inflicting you pain. You simply wanted them to taste and experience the very pain they inflicted on others. Very often, a simple admission of mistake and an apology would have made all your pains disappear as you knew we all made mistakes. It was the holier-than-thee attitude and smug embrace of power that enraged and infuriated you.