"luthienrising;908341" wrote:
I don't have time today to read this, but I thought I'd bring it here for discussion:
Amelia Tait, "'I want to cheat on him and set him on fire': why are we sadistic towards our Sims?" New Statesman, January 6, 2017.
Off hand my guess is, in sims we are playing the part of a god ruling over an entire land, we can do whatever we want; "Power Corrupts" "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely".
May also be in some cases too that we do things and think the way we would if we would want them to happen if we were in our favorites sims situation. Like Playing our favorite lady sim and the sim she's involved with cheats on her we would/ might just want him to burn! And we can make it happen so we do; Sadistic to our sims due to rage over bad things that can/ do happen in life that we have little to no control over.
Can't always do or make things we want to happen in real life but in sims things are entirely different.
Besides, doing horrible things to our sims in sims 4 is challenging so can/ could/ does make it all the more fun to watch them die some horrible death. I believe that if EA hadn't had it such a challenge to kill a sim, it wouldn't (or might not) be topping the charts of most people's TO DO LIST.
Just my own opinion...
