Schadenfreude- "joy at the expense of others." Or so that's how I understand it. It's a great word and in my opinion typically a great feeling. Let me warm you up before I give you an extreme example.
Everyone watches America's Funniest Home Videos or something of the like. What are they all about? People getting hurt for the most part and the audience laughing about it.
Notice how it's titled "Funny Accident Compilation." But they are...
Funny how you just can't stop watching can you?
So in my expertly twisted mind I found this article about a 12 year old boy's trick or treat killing funny. Macabre? Yes but read the article. A 22 year old guy thinks someone is trying break in to his house and unleashes 29 shots from an AK-47 through the front door. Obviously a dude with problems but the humor for me is that the greedy little boy took the majority of the bullets because the he "was determined to get candy first, so he was in front when the shots were fired." Also the slain boy's mother reminisced that he "liked to bake cakes, in part because he relished licking the batter." I see it as one of God's strange punishments for our greediness.
Pretty sick huh? Sorry. It happened in South Carolina. The dad wants the bullet happy dude to suffer life in jail. I'm sure the dude was on drugs or all paranoid. I mean you have to have some insecurities if you have a machine gun. The kid probably pounded on the door all excited for candy. We know what happened next. I wonder if the dad supported hard core gun rights? I wonder if he changed his mind? So a somber introspective mood approaches. Do you think the guy should get life? His first words when he opened the door were, "Oh no!" I think an incident like that screws you up for life but might open your eyes with some additional therapy.
"Turn the other cheek," as the famous dude says.
Go ahead and comment on any moments of personal observations of Schadenfreude to lighten the mood please. I'm going to watch kats do silly things.
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