gusto in Misfortune

Implicit Schadenfreude of disaster spectators. A new book, Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune,” by Tiffany Watt Smith. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find in another's misfortune - is an emotion of pleasure-in-others'-misfortune is a German term that describes the complicated joy people sometimes get from someone else's misfortune. An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt that joy. These responses have always seemed in poor taste to me, and certainly, if we examine it objectively, deriving pleasure out of the misfortunes of others.