Is there a name for this behavior?

What do you call someone who does the same thing over and over and always gets a negative consequence?

Its not unlike a person touching a red hot stove over and over again. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

What is the motivation?

I don't call my mother much because when I get her on the phone she makes snide shitty comments about me not calling her. Makes for a redundant cycle.

A friend gets drunk and stupid, hurts himself and makes really bad decisions over and over causing his life to be in shambles. He doesn't see anything wrong with it.

A diabetic who is losing toes and eyesight keeps shoving candy and sweets into her mouth like they are going out of style. Isn't there a consequence dire enough to stop the behavior?

A family friend continues to date "bad boys" even though the last four(in no particular order) beat her up, tried to molest her daughter, stole all her money and jewelry, and stabbed a neighbor with a butcher knife for coming to her aid. She is on bad boy number 5 now who is about to go to prison for trashing her house punching her pregnant belly.

I worked in a bar where the same couple would regularly get into fist fights and bully the other patrons . I asked the owner to ban them from the bar. He wouldn't do it because "they are really sorry when they sober up."

Does the cycle only end with death?

The human race has survived this long I think because of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Now we live in a society where you can do lots and lots of stupid self destructive things and live to tell about it. They also procreate and make another generation of social and emotional misfits.

I'm curious to see what would happen to the people who sabotage their own lives if the societal safety net was suddenly pulled away.