Why is griefing fun?

[Skky]

"And what, exactly, am I wanting by killing someone's aether rays?"

-That is a very good question. What would you want? Information empowers us to make better choices.

grief:
–noun
1. keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
2. a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.
—Idioms
3. come to grief, to suffer disappointment, misfortune, or other trouble; fail: Their marriage came to grief after only two years.
4. good grief, (used as an exclamation of dismay, surprise, or relief): Good grief, it's started to rain again!

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME gref, grief < AF gref; see grieve]
[Middle English greven, from Old French grever, to harm, from Latin gravāre, to burden, from gravis, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.]

—Synonyms 1. anguish, heartache, woe, misery; sadness, melancholy, moroseness. See sorrow.
—Antonyms 1. joy.

To choose to grief after knowing what it means is what becomes curious. And I do not always understand it.

Perhaps the person who is killing someone else's aether rays wants to, simply because he can. Or, because it gives him a sense of empowerment; a way to feel in control after he himself was mistreated and suffered a state of helplessness. It may be that the individual truly is unaware that his choices are grievous to those upon whom they are affected. Is it a simple misunderstanding over the word griefing here?

I cannot know the motivation or desire which caused that person to choose his behavior. I can know how his choices affect me and empathise with others who face them.

What we do and even what we do not do affects others.

"Just because someone is griefing someone else or ganking s"omeone else doesn't mean they're a degenerate loser with serious mental issues."

-Then, what does it mean? It is interesting that you conclude such a thing.

"I don't expect someone who plays on PvE servers to be capable of understanding that, though. And, being a PvP fiend, I don't expect to be capable of understanding how ganking and griefing can ever be bad."

I play on both PvP and PvE servers. I seek to understand and I am quite capable of understanding. (Though, ask the Lurkers on Terenas, it can take awhile but, I get there.)