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Old 06-11-2018, 06:51 PM
 
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Because you hated your enemy but his mother did not deserve it. You just deliver pleasure from the fact that it hit him. How sick or normal is that? Is that common among people?
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Old 06-11-2018, 06:57 PM
 
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I've always felt like the english language should have a translation for schadenfreude. Because it's a thing.
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Old 06-11-2018, 07:22 PM
 
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I can’t speak for others but no, I would not derive pleasure from someone dealing with the death of their mother. I would however derive satisfaction if an enemy faced consequences from their actions.
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Old 06-11-2018, 07:28 PM
 
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If you have been personally injured by someone, I think it is human nature to want to see them suffer just a little bit (nothing serious). Just want to see them get their karma - which you hardly ever get a chance to see cuz it's really not your business.
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Old 06-11-2018, 07:30 PM
 
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I've wished for someones death which came to pass. Transpired how I fantasized it would. It's not mentally healthy but not abnormal either
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Old 06-11-2018, 07:53 PM
 
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I don't want to see harm befall some third party I have no issue with, no.

There are a handful of people I'd have no empathy for if something bad befell them, though.
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Old 06-12-2018, 12:40 AM
 
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I hated a woman, and then her son, her baby boy, got killed in a car accident. I remember myself, feeling two opposite emotions at once - burning hatred towards her as a person, and deepest honest sympathy to her, as a mother. I almost exploded, so intense it was.
I do hate three people, I wish death to one of them (many do). But I never wished, silently or in spoken words, any harm to their dear ones. I don't think it will make me feel happy, if their relatives will die. It won't teach them what I would like them to learn.
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Old 06-12-2018, 03:17 AM
 
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Do people really have enemies? If a relationship or connection with another person isn't working for you, sever the connection. Thus, they are no longer an enemy.
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Old 06-12-2018, 05:21 AM
 
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Because you hated your enemy but his mother did not deserve it. You just deliver pleasure from the fact that it hit him. How sick or normal is that? Is that common among people?
There have been people in my life who I felt wronged me in one way or another, and I wouldn't mind seeing their actions come back to bite them in the butt in a way related to those wrongs, but no, I would not feel any pleasure to learn that someone they loved had died. That's just twisted, on several levels.
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Old 06-12-2018, 06:10 AM
 
Location: Redwood City, CA
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I don't have any enemies, not in any meaningful sense, but there are three people I would like to outlive. I don't spend much time thinking about them or wishing they would die but I look forward to being in a world where they're no longer spreading their poison.


Some people do make the world a better place by leaving it.
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