Foo - Is it morally reprehensible to...

...experience schadenfreude? I feel guilt, if that helps.

go with that feeling................

I don't know what that means.

go with that feeling................

Which one, the schadenfreude, or the guilt?

Depends. Much of slapstick comedy was based on it, and no guilt needed there.
If however we're talking about the situation in the Congo yes.

There, doesn't that make you feel better.

I don't know what that means.
You know, schadenfreude. It's when you shade your effen 'rhoids.

I don't know what that means.

It's German. You know the Germans - they're the ones with the cool-looking army helmets and an annoying propensity for going into other people's countries to show them off.

Anyway, auf Deutsch, schaden = sad, sadness, and freude = joy. Thus, literally, sad-joy. It means taking pleasure or enjoyment from the misfortune of others. And leave it to the Germans to come up with a literal compound word to describe it.

And IMHO, the moral reprehensibility of it is purely situational. A random kid gets shot in the butt in the street - shadenfreude baaaaad. Dick Cheney gets shot in the butt on a hunting trip with the same geezer he shot a few years back - knock yourself out.

:wtf:

:wtf:

I second that ^^^

:o Oh, no. I know what shadenfreude means. I don't know what that guilt thing means. :p

means your a shroedinger cat.

No, but gloating would be.

What you think or feel can never be morally reprehensible, only what you do.

:o Oh, no. I know what shadenfreude means. I don't know what that guilt thing means. :p

Think of guilt as "the gift that keeps on giving."

I greatly prefer to experience mummenshanz

YouTube - Mummenschanz "C"

WTF?
Can I haz a refund?

WTF?
Can I haz a refund?

yes, but I pay out all refunds in mummenshanz

YouTube - Mummenshanz 2, ????? 2

keep the change.

yes, but I pay out all refunds in mummenshanz

YouTube - Mummenshanz 2, ????? 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NerfIRJmBo)

keep the change.

I'll just have Tom send you the bill for my therapy.

I'll just have Tom send you the bill for my therapy.

I will pay him with this

YouTube - The Muppet Show - Clay Faces

there are no thought crimes.

It is never wrong to have (or not have, for that matter) any feeling. Now, there are certain feelings in certain situations that would most definitely be wrong to express or act on.

jim

No, but gloating would be.

What you think or feel can never be morally reprehensible, only what you do.

Snap. I gloated. *sigh*

I greatly prefer to experience mummenshanz

YouTube - Mummenschanz "C" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiej--45oI8)

Approve, mummenshanz.

k, gimme 2 mummenshanz and- no, wait - make that 3 mummenshanz an' a coupla schadenfreudes, pls.

An' no mayo.

u wan pappa frita wi dat?

...experience schadenfreude? I feel guilt, if that helps.

No!

Schadenfreude is a perfectly natural and healthy part of being a human being. Embrace it.

No!

Schadenfreude is a perfectly natural and healthy part of being a human being. Embrace it.

Should I embrace the gloating, too? :p

Should I embrace the gloating, too? :p

As long as you don't do it outwardly too much...:p

Definition of Schadenfreude:

All of the people camped out at the muddy dangerous part of a 'cross race where most riders eat it.

One time my friend Greg and I were in a tube station in London, and a lady got shut out of the elevator, and at the top of his lungs, in a crowded elevator, he sings "FARK YOU LADY, THAT"S WHAT STAIRS ARE FOR!"
(except it wasn't fark...)

You could have cut the air with a knife.

That said, every day for me is an experience in schadenfreude.


GARY COLEMAN:
Right now you are down and out and feeling really crappy

NICKY:
I'll say.

GARY COLEMAN:
And when I see how sad you are
It sort of makes me...
Happy!

NICKY:
Happy?!

GARY COLEMAN:
Sorry, Nicky, human nature-
Nothing I can do!
It's...
Schadenfreude!
Making me feel glad that I'm not you.

NICKY:
Well that's not very nice, Gary!

GARY COLEMAN:
I didn't say it was nice! But everybody does it!

D'ja ever clap when a waitress falls and drops a tray of glasses?

NICKY:
Yeah...

GARY COLEMAN:
And ain't it fun to watch figure skaters falling on their asses?

NICKY:
Sure!

GARY COLEMAN:
And don'tcha feel all warm and cozy,
Watching people out in the rain!

NICKY:
You bet!

GARY COLEMAN:
That's...

GARY AND NICKY:
Schadenfreude!

GARY COLEMAN:
People taking pleasure in your pain!

NICKY:
Oh, Schadenfreude, huh?
What's that, some kinda Nazi word?

GARY COLEMAN:
Yup! It's German for "happiness at the misfortune of others!"

NICKY:
"Happiness at the misfortune of others." That is German!

Watching a vegetarian being told she just ate chicken

GARY COLEMAN:
Or watching a frat boy realize just what he put his dick in!

NICKY:
Being on the elevator when somebody shouts "Hold the door!"

GARY AND NICKY:
"No!!!"
Schadenfreude!

GARY COLEMAN:
"**** you lady, that's what stairs are for!"

NICKY:
Ooh, how about...
Straight-A students getting Bs?

GARY COLEMAN:
Exes getting STDs!

NICKY:
Waking doormen from their naps!

GARY COLEMAN:
Watching tourists reading maps!

NICKY:
Football players getting tackled!

GARY COLEMAN:
CEOs getting shackled!

NICKY:
Watching actors never reach

GARY AND NICKY:
The ending of their oscar speech!
Schadenfreude!
Schadenfreude!
Schadenfreude!
Schadenfreude!

GARY COLEMAN:
The world needs people like you and me who've been knocked around by fate.
'Cause when people see us, they don't want to be us,
and that makes them feel great.

NICKY:
Sure!
We provide a vital service to society!

GARY AND NICKY:
You and me!
Schadenfreude!
Making the world a better place...
Making the world a better place...
Making the world a better place...
To be!

GARY COLEMAN:
S-C-H-A-D-E-N-F-R-E-U-D-E!

Definition of Schadenfreude:

All of the people camped out at the muddy dangerous part of a 'cross race where most riders eat it.

True.