Torture or Pleasure?

The Netflix episode, "White Bear" presents Victoria. She seems like a mentally disturbed person, unaware of who she truly is. Everyone around her watching without communicating to her, added on to her confusion. She discovers a girl in the street who convinced her that everyone was hypnotized by the strange transmitter. Victoria feels hopeless because everyone around her was acting like zombies constantly recording her. Being hunted terrified her. Eventually, her companion lead her to discover the White Bear headquarters, where Victoria discovered it was all a set up. Now take the time to imagine this scene a hundred times. Playing it over and over would drive anyone crazy. No wonder her mind was not in the right place, undergoing psychological trauma of this sort made her defenseless. In a way this amusement park set-up that she was a part of, made her feel like the innocent child felt when she was abducted and brought to her death. This appear to be justice of some sort. The question is, is this the right form of justice?

What makes people want to torture? In this case is it for punishment still? To me it seems like the whole amusement park was evidence that people took her situation and decided to find joy out of it. If they really wanted to torture her for the right means, people would not be recording with a smirk on their faces. Their body language makes it clear that they feel pleasure from seeing her hurt. Their initial purpose might have been to punish her so that she could feel like the little girl being filmed. Victoria herself played a role in the girls death because she served as an on-looker. It might be fair to punish a spectator by spectating her, but how can something this extreme be considered humane? Criminal or not, no one deserves to have their memories whipped clean, over and over. 

Memories are not usually targeted as methods of torture. Instead, people suffer physical pain. I can't think of a worst way to suffer punishment. Having no-control is bad enough, but not having my brain function to its full capacity is complete disability. A disabled mind has no reasoning so why even bother to teach them better? True rehabilitation comes from a person's understanding of their problem. They have to want to be better people and repent for their ill-actions. Victoria's actions were merciless, and society as a whole fell down with her. Alternative methods of punishment would have been much better. In my opinion her filming of the murder was only a cover up. It was used to disguise the reality of human beings and their lust for the negative. People chase after bad things because good becomes too ordinary. Although there are different scales to evil, people find pleasure where there shouldn't be any according to our standards of "morals". This ironic phenomena explains why a evil-natured woman became the center of attraction; people enjoyed witnessing what it felt like in her place.