How do jerks select their target?
Jerks bullying is obsessive and compulsive; the serial jerk has to have someone to bully and appears to be unable to survive without a current target. Bullies are people who have not learned the lesson of consequences, i.e. that if they behave well there are good consequences (reward), but if they behave badly there are bad consequences (restriction, sanction, punishment, etc.). Since childhood, bullies have learnt that they can avoid the unpleasant consequences of bad behavior through the instinctive response of denial, blame, and feigning victimhood. The bully selects their target using the following criteria: Bullies are predatory and opportunistic – you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; this is always the main reason – investigation will reveal a string of predecessors, and you will have a string of successors.
