I don't think it is about the people you're hurting (or more accurately, asserting superiority over), but the fact that you (or Tolstoy) are not one of them. Th

I don't think it is about the people you're hurting (or more accurately, asserting superiority over), but the fact that you (or Tolstoy) are not one of them. The object of the schaudenfreud isn't the Java dev or Shakespeare fan specifically, but the dead-eyed hoi polloi, and if you enjoy Shakespeare/pit bull/Thomas Friedman you must be one of them.