Dear Crawford:

You are welcome and thank you for your kind words. I agree with you, that “people are consciously doing harm for personal needs because they don’t know any other way to deal with situations”, or they may know other ways, but those other ways don’t feel good. Like you wrote later in your recent post: “as long as they ‘feel’ good”: feeling good is a strong motivation in human behavior.

Like you suggested (you are amazingly wise as far as understanding behaviors, I say!),  people “don’t care too much how it affects anyone else”, which to me means that people will do what it takes for them to feel better regardless of how their behavior affects others, feeling better at the expense of others. We all have to be aware of this tendency: to feel better any which way, whatever it takes, and be careful to not harm others.

anita