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Well, I wouldn't call this schadenfreude. Close - but no cigar.
People who take gleeful delight in the troubles of others, even undeserved, have defects in their character - like those who find happiness when others fail or experience tragedy.
Simply observing and documenting how the plots and schemes of tyrants, troublemakers, enablers and masterminds blow up in their faces (as well as ours) is simply what I would call noting people getting their "just deserts".
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
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People who take gleeful delight in the troubles of others, even undeserved, have defects in their character - like those who find happiness when others fail or experience tragedy.
Simply observing and documenting how the plots and schemes of tyrants, troublemakers, enablers and masterminds blow up in their faces (as well as ours) is simply what I would call noting people getting their "just deserts".
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
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