automaker Ford, decided to get involved in auto racing to help build the Ford brand. In the early 1960s, Henry Ford II, chief executive of U.S. In that spirit, here are 10 noteworthy examples of things done completely out of spite.
And some of their targets probably deserve it. īut all the same, it's hard not to admire the sheer ingenuity and determination of the spiteful. The researchers found that spitefulness was associated with a host of undesirable qualities, including aggression, narcissism, and psychopathy. In a study published in the journal Psychological Assessment in 2014, researchers questioned almost 300 adults about the degree of their desire to get back at others, and compared it to other data about their mental health. But the urge can become so powerful that, if left unchecked by reason, it can spiral to self-destructive extremes. It may feel deliciously satisfying to punish someone we feel has wronged us.
īut hey, even though it cost Achilles his life, he sure did show Agamemnon, didn't he? That's one of the problems with spite. This ultimately led to Achilles taking revenge upon Hector, only for Hector's brother, Paris, to kill him with an arrow. That's when Achilles' spitefulness backfired on him, because his friend Patroklos was killed in battle by the Trojan warrior Hector. But even after the humiliated king offered to give back Briseis, Achilles was unmoved, perhaps because he was enjoying Agamemnon's misery too much.
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