What is the Actual Motivation for Torturing People?

As I've said, there's not much point in talking about any of this, given that these people who go around engaging in torture are beyond all reason and have no regard for life. It's as if they've been removed from anything resembling human life for such a terribly long time that they can't grasp the most basic concepts that living, human beings use to make sense of things and to interact. It's not a different philosophy that causes a person to do something so horrific, and a lust for authoritarianism is not enough to cause a person to do these types of things. There's some kind of irrationality that can overtake people who have been in power, and it's an irrational sense that their own interests and methods should seem not just correct to others but should be endlessly-understandable. People who become part of some sort of appalling system of violence are bewildered by anyone who finds the system to be unbearable and to shatter the most basic type of framework that any human society has to be based on, if it's going to endure in any meaningful way. One example of this is in the educational system, and I will not just stop criticizing the educational system because my criticisms are upsetting to some people, evidently. When every student who participates in the educational system finds the system to be tremendously oppressive and no student has any capacity whatsoever to voice his or her criticism, without hurting himself or herself, there is something very, very wrong, and one sees this type of absolute silencing of groups of people in social "constructs" or contexts or whatever--in hierarchies--that have become corrupted in serious ways. Anyway, one can develop all sorts of elaborate justifications for one's actions, but, when you think you "know better" than another person or group of people and you find yourself interacting with a person who is in a desperate state and who has no hope of ever reaching anyone (upsetting as this is for some people to hear, this describes many, if not most, students in educational institutions), you have to be willing to look critically at yourself and your approaches. There's something very wrong, when one has so, so much power and can't offer anything more than desperation and pain to those whom one is bossing around.