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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 03:12 AM
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23. Some people live in a zero sum gain world when it comes to joy and sorrow.
Edited on Sat Apr-03-10 03:13 AM by RandomThoughts
For some people, seeing other people in sorrow makes them feel better. Its like inverted empathy.

Instead of feeling bad, they actually take pleasure in another's suffering. Sometimes it is a feeling of justice, but in most of the gossip stuff, that does not even make sense. And who is to know if it is justice or some hindrance on the person.

Or maybe they live vicariously through someone else, and do feel the empathy, guess it would depend on the way such thing is spoken of.



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