(October 7, 2014 at 1:43 am)genkaus Wrote:(October 7, 2014 at 12:54 am)Jenny A Wrote: Is schadenfreude itself immoral, or do we have to cause the misfortune or revel in undeserved misfortune of others for it to be immoral?
Oh, and immoral or not, do you admit to schadenfreude?
I do admit to schadenfreude - with the caveat that the concept should not be regarded divorced from context. For exmaple, the only times I recall feeling joy at the misery of others is when I held certain dislike for the person or if the misery was self-caused.
Which brings me to the conclusion that it'd be incorrect to judge it as moral or immoral absent any context. Without any such context, I'd regard it as amoral.
Frankly, in any context, I don't thing our emotions are iniquities---only our actions are crimes. This is where I differ greatly from Christians. If you hate with a passion and yet restrain yourself for moral reasons you are virtuous. It is what you do, not what you want to do that matters.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
