SELF-ESTEEM

5 Reasons Why Some People Use Rankism to Demean Others to Make Themselves Feel Better

What do they get out of belittling somebody else?

We’ve all experienced it before.

Those people who are always putting other people down and finding fault and reasons to pick them apart are just plain rude and don’t care who they hurt. In fact, they go out of their way to try and hurt others on purpose.

They find pleasure in making other people feel less-than and low so that it makes them feel high. They want to trample other people down and make them feel inferior so that they can feel superior.

They practice Rankism, which means they basically treat people like nobodies while feeling like they themselves are a great big somebody.

But why do they do this? Here’s 5 reasons why.

They’re Hurt Themselves

This ties into the old saying that hurt people, hurt people.

While we might want to dismiss this one as a cop out, it has some merit. Because after all, another saying also holds true, and that’s misery loves company.

Some people have issues with dealing with their own pain, so it can be distracting to them to inflict pain on somebody else with insults and degrading. Seeing someone else’s spirit low because of something they did to lower it offers them a sick satisfaction, like some type of drug fix or like they feel they are evening the score for bad things that may have happened to them. This could stem from being mistreated and abused at some point in their own lives.

Low Self-esteem or Self-confidence

Some people find it necessary to make others feel low because they, themselves feel low about themselves. If they are not confident within themselves and cannot deal with their personal weaknesses, they make it a priority to try and bring somebody else down to their low level. Again, this is misery loving company.

People’s own low self-esteem and low image of themselves can lead to jealousy and envy, which can lead to them lashing out at others to make themselves feel better.

Seeking Revenge

Sometimes, let’s face it, somebody just might want to give somebody else a taste of their own medicine by making that person feel low. One person may want to get someone back for doing them harm, so they intentionally inflict pain on that person and enjoy doing it in the process.

This ties into the old saying, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, which means that somebody just wants to get even.

Plain Jealousy

It is no secret that we all know of a time or two where we knew someone who did and said things to somebody else to bring them down, just because they were jealous of that person.

This is often the case when the person inflicting the pain wants to tear someone else down for something that they are incapable of doing themselves. For example, someone might be jealous of someone else’s talent, spouse, car, house, or any other manifestation of another person’s good fortune.

They’re An Asshole

There’s no other way to put this, and this is from my own observation and experience.

Some people are just self-centered assholes, feeding and feasting on their on ego. These people have high self esteem but often have to keep up some type of false appearances so that they don’t look low to other people. They don’t understand that they don’t, but they can have strong feelings about looking low and weak, so they do and say whatever they can to make others feel inferior and the difference is that they love doing it.

They love the idea of taking advantage of and hurting somebody else. They derive pleasure from it. They enjoy being abusive.

Justification?

It is a shame but some people actually justify their reasons to invest time and negative emotions into tearing other people down to make them feel low or bad about themselves.

But what they don’t realize is that another saying is also true, and that’s karma is a b*tch. And here’s another one — what goes around comes around. So if you’re the person who has been torn down by somebody that seems to love doing that to you, then trust and believe that the negative seeds that person sows will catch up with them sooner or later.

Just my 2 cents

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