All of the above. It's often fascinated me that certain people feel the need to resort to these tactics; one might almost think they had nothing else to bring to the table.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'