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I don't think justice and schadenfreude are terribly different. Schadenfreude is taking joy in someone else's suffering. Justice is taking joy in the meting o
by mnemonicsloth 9y ago
I don't think justice and schadenfreude are terribly different.
Schadenfreude is taking joy in someone else's suffering.
Justice is taking joy in the meting out of suffering to people who deserve it. People argue about who deserves what, and laws and justice systems exist to manage those arguments. But the idea of righteous retribution for a wrong is pretty close to universal, and looks like schadenfreude to me.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoWell, in my mind, retribution and justice aren't closely related. Taking revenge on wrongdoers and making things right are not inherently the same thing. I can think of lots of situations where taking revenge on the wrongdoer in no way makes anything right. "Two wrongs don't make a right" and all that.