a pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune, a type of schadenfreude
Ressentiment explains the existence of crimes that otherwise are thought of a ‘senseless’.” It tends to elevate “weakness, impotence, and dependence to positions of moral superiority… [its a] sentimental extension of the idea of toleration beyond its proper limits, and reinforced by altruistic self-hatred.”1Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction
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