Schadenfreude - the pleasure derived from another's misfortune - is an all-too-familiar. The German word schadenfreude describes taking pleasure in the very inadequate. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find in another's misfortune has focused on the role of envy and competition in inducing such feelings. If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. Displeasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy.
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