Getcomposted: This is a philosophical question. Can you tell me why you're a troll? What is it about causing misery that gets you off?
I do mean it as a question. I can't really fathom the psychology involved. So I'm interested in why you do this.
Is it because you think the internet isn't real? Do you torture kittens as well? Or other sadistic stuff? Is it a sexual thing? Do you just hate everybody?
Why is it fun for you? I mean, do you think of it as a long joke? Are you sociopathic? Psychopathic? Is this some kind of displacement therapy? You can't rape and murder your father/ mother/ sister/ brother/ family/ family pet/ friend/ stranger - so you do this instead?
If I may please intrude I believe I may be able to shed some light onto the inner working of his mental processes.
None of your theories actually conform to known trolls motives, what we know about trolls is that for all their claims of uniqueness they are surprisingly uniform in both their thinking and motivation. Almost as if created by a cookie cutter. The trolling individual is someone with very low self-steem, high levels of self loathing and a lot of pent up aggression. In their randomly lashing out, they act out their destructive and retribution fantasies, while at the same time, by behaving in such a depraved and moronic way, their inability looks them right in the face as if it were a mirror, thus proving to themselves their own inadequacy and justifying their self-loathing, which creates a vicious circle of more aggression powered by more self loathing.
In short, they're cunts.