How often do you feel happiness/satisfaction at the misfortune of others?

Give an example of the last time you felt good about someone else being more worse off than you.

How often do you feel happiness/satisfaction at the misfortune of others?
Many ppl on the street lying helplessly, deprived of basic needs, or some one is being tortured by the other for simple mistake all these types of happenings make me think satisfied of my present situation.
Reply:Never.. I would never wish unto other people what I wouldn't want done to me.
Reply:Often. I have very low selfesteem.
Reply:basically when others trip and fall.


even though sometimes it may be mean


but i can't control myself.


haha.
Reply:ONLY when bad things happen to my brother-in-law -- he's a jerk.
Reply:Shceadenfreude rears it's ugly head in my life now and then.








It last occurred when Larry "Wide stance"Craig was revealed to be gay. I love it when the righties fall. Oh man, I'm laughing right now thinking about that anti-gay zealot being outed like that.
Reply:I sometimes think about how great a b/f I have (and how lucky I have been) when I look at my friends boyfriends and how they are treated.
Reply:i don't feel good that someone else has misfortune. but i do feel thankfulness for what I have. and usually pray for the others.
Reply:several times a day.





just this morning I saw someone trip and fall and couldn't stop laughing.
Reply:I have Know Idea
Reply:i help people out everyday at work that i am late on my own work.
Reply:It doesn't happen to me often, only for people who I think deserve what is coming to them. I remember when I knew someone who cheated on an exam before, also cheated on the final and got caught. In my college cheating on a final is an automatic failure of the course. I was happy because that person usually cheats all the time.
Reply:when my exes gf left him for his brother laughed my *** off
Reply:Well...





Let's just say that...





I wasn't too upset by Britney Spears misfortunes...





("Other" people shouldn't do drugs...)





Although I should add...I wasn't too happy for her kids...because THAT'S the kind of situation where your heart goes out to the little tykes that will suffer because of it...
Reply:I don't, but I pray for them often. I find it funny when people get down on friday the 13th and I am thinking it is just another day. It just seems you realize you do stupid stuff more on that day but the truth is we all do stupid stuff all the time.
Reply:Never, as its bad karma. Someone may think they're worse off than you but remember you're always worse off than someone else - its all a relative concept.





Why the thumbs down?
Reply:One of my old roomates lost her job her live in boyfriend lost his job and it kind of felt good because she left me in a mess when she moved, the power was in her name and she had it turned off I came home from the beach to her being moved out and had no power! So I felt like she kinda deserved it!
Reply:Everytime I encounter a situation wherein someone is raging George W. Bush, I get a big kick out of it. UGH. He's on my TV right now, get him outta here!!!
Reply:Usually it's more pity than anything. I look at them and am afraid of becoming like that. It's easy to fear that the problems others are facing could very well be in my future, so laughing at them is dangerous and makes me ill.
Reply:I try not to do that. There is a thing called karma that deters me from that kind of thinking. There but for the grace of God go I.
Reply:my best friend was going to get married to this skank whore... I told him "hay she is a skank whore." he ignored me and married her anyway saying that they where "In love!" I said "you can not marry someone you only dated for a month, plus she is a skank whore!!!"





we are not friends anymore and I had a good day when they got a divorce after 1 year of marriage. He called me up and I said, "told ya so." and hung up.
Reply:I am not like that at all. It's just the miserable people that find happiness in other's misfortune.