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Kittens turning tail and gating out after wiping themselves on a single flurry was the highlight of my day

The 19-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer would be disturbed by the notion of good schadenfreude. He called it “the worst trait in human nature . . . closely akin to cruelty.” Schopenhauer distinguished between envy and schadenfreude. “To feel envy is human; but to indulge in such malicious joy is fiendish and diabolical. There is no more infallible sign of a thoroughly bad heart and profound moral worthlessness than an inclination to a sheer and undisguised malignant joy of this kind. The man in whom this trait is observed should be forever shunned.”