Why people take risks knowing that it will cause harm to them and others?

We need to have a sense of personal control, otherwise, we may end up been desperate and finding ourselves in mess everytime. I wonder why people don't seem to learn from others.

ravisivan I really think a lot of people who do this are thoughtless and selfish, thinking only of what will make them happy even if it eventually harms them and hurts others. They are self centered and maybe spoiked by their family as children. Thinking unselfish people will weigh the consequences of any action and will not do things that will ultimately harm themselves or their friends or even strangers. It is like they live only for today not thinking what could happen tomorrow at all. As you say a man who lives by the sword will die by the sword of someone else

May be these people gain joy and emotional satisfaction thro' knowing the fact that their action will cause harm to other but seldom to themselves. They must have everything ready at their disposal for the aftermath event in the case they have to face the consequences of their ill action and selfish decision. We have all sorts of personality type in our present world, since we all don't belong to just one homogenous group of human being living in this planet/.

Hi ravisivan: I think tehre's no rational explanation about this behaviour. I just know that the feeling of doing it's supposed we should not do it attract us. People love the sense of doing something that it's supposed they should not do it, specially for some people who enjoy breaking the rules. ALVARO

Actaully any one dos mistake in their life,it can be a small one or a big one.Doing that one will feel it is right once the time had passed away the right thing becomes a bad thing.

living is a risk itself and every body take risk in order to survive. Taking a risk makes us nobler and the triumphs are more sweeter and meaningful. I don't think people should be constrained to take risks but encourage to do so for the benefits of new developments and discoveries.

She developed relationship with the former minister with an intention to blackmail him. If I were the judge I wouldnt bother wasting time trying to give her any justice. A wrong of this type has major repurcussions in lives of many people as she was in position to get things against the needs of others. So she doesnt deserve justice. The maxim of law is - come with clean hands. Here, there are no clean hands. As to the minister, all his property should be confiscated. I think we do need more severe punishments that engulfs even the family members of ministers and friends of ministers. That way it will indeed be difficult for ministers to do any wrong, whether for physical pleasures or for monies because we would be policing them from within their families - without paying the families! Those lokayukta and other things that Anna hopes for are hardly going to help in reducing such things. I have a lot of respect for Anna Hazareji, but I do feel that he still thinks innocently.

It is because you was tempted and your faith is not big enough to resist the temptation. No one will really knows the consequence unless we are on the same situation. Even if others are saying not to do it but if our mind is set on doing it, then our mind would still prevails. Usually, people under the temporary happpiness would indulge themselves very much without thinking of the end result.

Sometimes other people just seem to enjoy doing bad to others and I cannot understand why they need to do that. Perhaps they get pleasure in hurting others which is very bad. And for the lady's part we would never know what harm the other person did for her to do such a thing. But still it was a bad thing for her to do that because she was not only ruining the ex-minister's life but also it has possibly affected a lot of people like his family and children. I hope that all who are done wrong are given justice and that people will just stop doing bad things to others.

maybe that person is only after his money, but it's hard to judge, I only hope she's fine.

People doing this thing is only after for the money, most probably because what life could offer to them. In this world nothing seems to play a protagonist type of a person. It is the survival of the fittest as Mr. Charles Darwin said. You cannot blame this people because this the only way they know, at least for survival.

They do those because of an underlying motivation. It could be that the person wants money, fame, fortune, revenge, or etc... We don't really know the actual or whole story. I actually don't understand those kind of people. -_-