“The process of diminishing the value of someone or something else is the only way for a percentage of the population to feel better about themselves.”

And this percentage of the population are called managers! Ba-da-boom. 🙂 ( No, they are not all bad … just run into more than my quota of bad management lately.)

More seriously, I’d like to think that most of those that can only feel better about themselves by de-valuing others just don’t know any other way. They could, given the right learning and life experiences be enlightened.

I would like, again, to think that only a few hard core cases really can only derive satisfaction from screwing over others and are true sociopaths… because if all the people that act that way are hardwired for that behaviour, we rally are screwed as a society.