What's the difference between sarcasm and joking?

The difference lies in motivation. The biggest difference between joking and mocking is that he has a motive, what influence he will bring to you and what benefits he will get. Of course, if you break it down, then you can think about what occasion, what environment and who are around you. . . Wait, these are all important factors. But anyway, if a person is joking, he won't think so much. He's just joking. He doesn't worry very much at ordinary times. He's casual. If a person is cynical, it is generally directly related to factors such as situation and environment. He either wants to provoke the contradiction between you and this environment, or he wants to win more people's attention, or he wants to blow your impression in the eyes of some special people or people. Wait, that's ironic. Generally speaking, jokes will not cause too serious consequences even if they are overdone, so they are generally not very vicious. In order to achieve the special purpose of cynics, ridicule can be vicious, biting and fatal.