Schadenfreude

[Adso de Fimnu]

Do you partake in Schadenfreude?
(For those of you who don't know, it's the pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune, often a peer.)

From Wikipedia:
The equivalent Latinate English word is epicaricacy, although the German term is more widely used.
Schadenfreude was seen as a sin by German theologians, and philosophers such as Schopenhauer, unless the joy was felt in response to a just punishment. It might now be similar to tall poppy syndrome, where people are pleased when someone with some status, celebrity or pretence in society is brought down.

In Sweden, a common saying is The Schadenfreude is the only true joy.

 

[Tomoyo]

I supposing it depends on who it is...

 

[CenturionV]

When it comes to people, I make a effort not to. When it comes to ideas or actions I find evil, I do, and am perfectly justified in doing so. I see pictures of dead al-qaede terrorist and like it, not cuz I like to see a man killed, but because I like to see an instument of evil, undone.

According to the bible, we should hate evil, not hate the evil doer.

 

[cgannon64]

Only if I personally know them and have been hurt by them, and even then its a little guilty.

 

[Azadre]

I shouldn't but that doesn't mean I don't.

 

[Archer 007]

It depends.

 

[Mr Black]

Yes

I don't want to, but it's in my nature.

sorry

 

[The Last Conformist]

I doubt any human is entirely free from it. I, for one, am not.

 

[Drewcifer]

Where is the option for no except when they really deserve it?

 

[classical_hero]

I'm sure everyone feels that way sometimes. Here is quote from The Simpsons.

Here is another file from the 'Funny when it happens to someone else' file.

 

[carlosMM]

In Sweden, a common saying is The Schadenfreude is the only true joy.

which is a direct translation of the German:
Schadenfreude ist die reinste Freude.

'reinste' means 'purest', too.

 

[Hitro]

I doubt any human is entirely free from it. I, for one, am not.

Yep. It is of course the most joyous of all joys.

EDIT: Just saw carlos' post above. I know the saying as it being the "schönste Freude", thus the most joyous (in this sense).

 

[insurgent]

which is a direct translation of the German:
Schadenfreude ist die reinste Freude.

'reinste' means 'purest', too.

Hmm... we don't have such a saying. But unlike English we have a word for Schadenfreude.

 

[S.P.Q.R.]

I try not to, but sometimes it is impossible

 

[Akka]

Schadenfreude was seen as a sin by German theologians, and philosophers such as Schopenhauer, unless the joy was felt in response to a just punishment.

That's it ^^

I feel fulfilling mean joy when seeing poetic justice in whatever form.

 

[Dann]

Do you partake in Schadenfreude?
(For those of you who don't know, it's the pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune, often a peer.)

You bet I do. Mwahahaha...