Ah. I take it you've never studied psychology, then. Or interrogation.
The gain? Information. Amusement. A chance to live vicariously through others. Satisfaction for the morbidly curious. A sense of power from having another creature dependent and at your mercy. Any reason man has ever caged anything for a zoo or for the purposes of scientific experiments, or spied on a creature in its natural habitat.
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Date: 2010-10-27 08:21 am (UTC)The gain? Information. Amusement. A chance to live vicariously through others. Satisfaction for the morbidly curious. A sense of power from having another creature dependent and at your mercy. Any reason man has ever caged anything for a zoo or for the purposes of scientific experiments, or spied on a creature in its natural habitat.