I find ruining people emotionally to be hilarious. I generally do it with the best of intentions.
I want you to retaliate. I want you to be strong, to not be a weak worthless piece of garbage for everyone to step on. Only I should be able to toy with you, to fuck with your head.
Some of my best friends were weak pitiful people, who I mentally exhausted to their breaking point, and they passed. They stood up. they fought back, physically or verbally, and even now respect everything I say like it's the word of God. It's great.
The funniest story though was one who broke, I was young. I spent an excessive amount of time tormenting this poor woman, teasing her, taunting her, making fun of her. She was spineless, one day she was ecstatic, naturally I inquired why, she indulged she had gotten engaged. But there was something, some small little thing bothering her so much. I saw the ring and knew immediately, the immediate response was "Wow, that's such a beautiful ring? Where's the diamond?" She showed her tell, there it was. Lied through her teeth and told me she didn't want anything too expensive. The next sentence devastated with thrilling effect, "You don't have to lie to me, he doesn't love you enough to buy you anything nice." She broke down, weeping. I called her very insecurity and hammered it with exhilarating accuracy. I don't know what happened to her marriage, but until she stopped talking to me she was never really the same.
What about you folks?
"Why not break them down first and then start from scratch?"
I'd prefer to not "break them" because then they'd just be an extension of what I was making them into. It'd offer less variety and uniqueness, and I'd have almost nothing new to gain from it. I want them to become less shameful related to themselves while understanding themselves both for enjoying the expression of strength that follows in them carving their own paths and for understanding them further myself, learning that much more about how people operate. Being what other people expect only has so much variation, while people being themselves unhindered by other's believed oppressive expectations allows for far more variety.
I like seeing people be honest extensions of themselves in the sense that it makes them into a representation of their own artistic expression, with life being the canvas. I want a world of art, not a world of my art, nor art that is guided by the judging eyes of others. I'd prefer to be more like a consultant, have them work with what's already there, instead of me being stuck outright reshaping people like they're just clay.
Everyone (to a degree anyway) has their own unique vision, and I think that ought to be pushed.