“Tormenting” your prey is a means of tiring it prior to the kill. It will actually make the final throes less likely to injure the predator. Violent struggle will be less likely to result in freedom or escape if one has been well worn down prior to collapse. It is neither insanity nor sadistic to defer the “kill” attack until your “prey” is exhausted. It is also practice and it is more likely to result in a win.
Conservatives and Capitalism are being hunted as we speak in this very manner.
The goal of anarchists is to wear down those who uphold higher values in the same way hyenas will bring down lions and even elephants.
Do not mistake their motivation as insanity.
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
>Ray Bradbury
I don't think I can subscribe to the concept that the unwashed masses who voted out the concept of 'austerity' have this level of sophistication. I feel they are behaving insanely, because being fiscally irresponsible at this juncture will cause a total breakdown. They will have killed the Golden Egg-laying Goose.
Now, those who plot and those who politick; now THAT class, I would never ascribe to them, the term 'insanity'. To THEM, I would ascribe the term 'malice of forethought'.