Is there ever a time to take pleasure in someone else's misery?

[wolfstalin]

Have it your way, I believe differently and no doubt readers will make up their own minds seeing the two posts side by side.

[metaphoria]

It's a bit crap when you're on the receiving end of this though....knowing that you have to eat your words, and somebody is enjoying watching you do so, eh?

[metaphoria]

This morning I was woken up at around 8:30 to the sounds of Kier repairing the windows in the foyer of my block of flats.

After about 10 minutes I could hear the man upstairs from me wailing for them to shut up.

This made me smile.

As I am in the process of trying to have him and his screeching wife removed from the block for anti social behaviour, mainly noise, I feel my pleasure was justified.

Have you ever felt justified in taking pleasure from anothers misfortune?

 

'Tis quite funny though. I suppose it's the irony, and the unintentional hilariousness of it all that is the essence of shadenfreude. And a taste of revenge without intervention.

 

But then what?

[greenrat]

This morning I was woken up at around 8:30 to the sounds of Kier repairing the windows in the foyer of my block of flats.

After about 10 minutes I could hear the man upstairs from me wailing for them to shut up.

This made me smile.

As I am in the process of trying to have him and his screeching wife removed from the block for anti social behaviour, mainly noise, I feel my pleasure was justified.

Have you ever felt justified in taking pleasure from anothers misfortune?

 

hmmm . if Labour got kicked out at either the next local or national elections, I'd be ecstatic at their misfortune !!

[mojo1]

'Tis quite funny though. I suppose it's the irony, and the unintentional hilariousness of it all that is the essence of shadenfreude. And a taste of revenge without intervention.

 

But then what?

 

Then I continue to send in my complaints and await the council eviction date knowing that at least for one day they understood what I felt.

[purdyamos]

Considering the fact that I'm to be at the mercy of the gorgeous pouting mojo1 in a few weeks' time, I found the thread title slightly alarming.

[Sierra]

We had a nasty neighbor woman who made everyone's lives a misery. One of her favorite tricks was going down to the city offices and reporting that you had done work on your house without a permit. She reported the man across the street when he had his roof replaced, and she even turned us in, lying and saying we had our roof replaced without a permit. (our roof at the time was over 10 years old and had been replaced by the previous owners) The guy who came out to investigate these claims was so incensed that she was wasting his time and using his office to harass her neighbors, that he walked to her property and started looking for violations. It turned out the expensive new fence she'd erected was nearly a foot too high and on her neighbor's property. She was forced, at significant expense, to tear it down and replace it. She was so mad while this was going on, she looked like one of those cartoon characters with the steam coming out of her ears. And she had no one to blame but herself because she was the one who had called him!

[Dozy]

Two totally contradictory posts starsparcle?????????????????????

 

Not at all.

 

Karma is karma - what will be will be.

 

I will never go out of my way to hurt anyone, and I do not take any enjoyment in anyone's suffering. In fact, it hurts me to see suffering. I sometimes can feel physically ill myself I can get so upset at how so-called human beings can treat their fellow man.

 

To think that someone could take pleasure in someone's else's misery makes me feel physically sick.

 

To know that karma will make its way round to everyone is comforting though. Fate will ensure we all receive what we deserve - fairness and rightness works itself out in the end. We need only to leave it to karma. It sorts the world out fairly.

 

StarSparkle

My bold

 

If that's the case, then I'm afraid I'm struggling to understand what an 8 year old child could have done to "deserve" to be tortured to death?

 

Or what exactly is fair and right about what happened to the the 5 children in this case.

 

Or doesn't "fate" or "karma" apply to defenceless children?

[wolfstalin]

Is that why all my enemies are tossers and I'm a millionaire.

[JoeP]

If that's the case, then I'm afraid I'm struggling to understand what an 8 year old child could have done to "deserve" to be tortured to death?

 

Or what exactly is fair and right about what happened to the the 5 children in this case.

 

Or doesn't "fate" or "karma" apply to defenceless children?

 

Dozy,

 

I think sometimes crap just happens - whether to 5 year old kids or 50 year old adults.

 

Things may happen to people that are just random events - to blame everything on 'What goes around, comes around' isn't really possible.

 

I don't think anyone is suggesting that an 8 year old deserves to be tortured to death; the implication here is that the torturer would get soem big time crap from Karma thrown on them. Also, there is a big difference between fate and Karma - they're not the same concept at all.