Porcupine_I on 12 January 2016
| John2290 said: Whats that German term for taking pleasure in someone else pain? Pity the opposite of empathy is apathy in my culture because I think with the Internet I'm becoming a German. |
Schadenfreude
Schaden = Damage
Freude = Joy
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
