Schadenfreude precludes not true horror or sadness. But if I felt true horror or sadness at every event which warranted it I would have killed myself a long tim

Schadenfreude precludes not true horror or sadness. But if I felt true horror or sadness at every event which warranted it I would have killed myself a long time ago, assuming I could keep up with the astronomical accounting entailed in keeping track of them all. The world is a grotesque suffering engine, you may have noticed. Let us savor schadenfreude where we can, I say.