(Just for the record ---and this has nothing to do with anything that I am preparing to say ---but, I don't like these abbreviations ...and I've never used the 'LOL' before, so this is a first, now the second, and hopefully the last time. But, enough of that now ...as I am going to look at the event of laughing at someone.)

I call it an unhealthy balance of focus on one's own comfort, interest, importance, and involvement. (Laughing at someone's expense, that is.)

There seems to be a real disconnect.

Why??