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What is the experience of joy that comes from learning of the troubles or humiliation of another called?

Correct answer: Schadenfreude

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What people think about it: 34 Comments

Bear

Oh so that's the term of how I feel for the January 6 rioters getting prison sentences.

Guillermo Jr.

Schadenfreude is also great on rye bread with gouda and a little brown mustard...

Melode

Jesus once said we should not want to feel satisfaction at the harm or Hamilton of another. we should pray for that person. there will always be that kind of person who likes to hurt others. we need to rise above that.

Player #18100718

orion2654, nothing messed up about it. Being puppets and human shields engaged in overthrowing a free and fair election requires an appropriate sentence.

player one.five

Listening to the blues can make you feel better by comparison

Player #66817220

So what exactly does the cat have to do with this?! (Hey, that looks like my cat!)

HawaiianShirtGuy

Alison , excellent example. We shouldn't confuse schadenfeude with feelings of humble gratitude. And we shouldn't confuse schadenfeude with partisan driven psychosis, either.

malda

i never understood how people can laugh at the demeanour of another person i e falling down : i get angry when i c such a thg

Nexus 6

Leave it to the Germans to have a word for this.

Maestra

I resent the cat picture!! LOL! 😆

Jenn Natalia

first paragraph is almost identical to above stated question...WHY waste our time?

Player #120374466

Debster, Many of us agree with you. A set up job all pre-planned by the opposition

Player #120374466

Player #66817220, I think cats are known to hold grudges.

Player #120374466

Player #18100718, What about the insurrection of our major cities such as Portland, Seattle, St Louis ete etc. those arrested are let out back into streets. Selective justice?

Greenie

This term sounds close to scandalous

CySar

Bear, Yes! Same here!

Poptart

Orange 🍊 man

Dee

Schadenfreude should only be experienced when seeing one get their comeuppance.

WDA

It is also a German word meaning a person's "Shameful Joy"

Michael

Melode, tell that to the christians who encited war upon countless millions of people in the name of religion, just for not believing the same way.

Debster

Bear, I was actually going to respond with a negative remark, but you aren’t worth it. Few if any of the prison sentences given were just. The only prison sentences that should have been given out was the man who killed that defenseless young woman and of course Nancy Perlosi who planned and roughly organized the mess that followed. She should be put somewhere away from human interaction.

Jackie

song Don't laugh at me by Mark Willis I think. it has a line in it that says - don't get your pleasure at my pain.

Jackie

Mack, this - zis