To feel like they are at least one step higher than the bottom of the hierarchy. Sometimes simply to bond with their (fellow bully) peers, without necessarily c

To feel like they are at least one step higher than the bottom of the hierarchy. Sometimes simply to bond with their (fellow bully) peers, without necessarily considering the deleterious effect on the target. Maybe its even more primal than that. When I was a kid, our canary somehow escaped, and an adult told me that it would be picked to death by other birds because it looked different. I don't even know if that's true, but it stuck with me.