Schadenfreude

[Metalhead]

I have recently found myself binge watching YouTube videos of Karens and sovereign citizens being arrested by the police who are not putting up with their lies. All because it makes my personal issues look not so bad in comparison.

I can no longer judge what other people enjoy watching if I am turning to this.

 

[Judge]

No harm. No foul. It pays to be aware of what can happen while in actual police custody.

That much is true...

 

[scleod]

I have recently found myself binge watching YouTube videos of Karens and sovereign citizens being arrested by the police who are not putting up with their lies. All because it makes my personal issues look not so bad in comparison.

I can no longer judge what other people enjoy watching if I am turning to this.

I often watch the youtube interviews of a sociopathic criminal or the police bodycam footage of different calls.

I dont think there is anything wrong with it. There is a sense of intrigue. But also a sense of comfort. Knowing you are safe. Warm. That your current circumstances are okay. Psychologist have done studies (I wish I could find the papers that I read but I have no idea what source it was from) that it has been a proven source of comfort. It keeps us more informed, makes us feel safer. It is even proven to release oxytocin and dopamine among having other positive effect on our bodies.

If you are being hard on youself I wouldn't be. It is pretty normal.

 

[Lou Laurinen]

I have recently found myself binge watching YouTube videos of Karens and sovereign citizens being arrested by the police who are not putting up with their lies. All because it makes my personal issues look not so bad in comparison.

I can no longer judge what other people enjoy watching if I am turning to this.

The first time one of my friends explained sovereign citizens to me, I thought he was joking, lol

 

[GrownupGirl]

Most people enjoy seeing justice being served to unsympathetic excuses for human beings. I know I do because of my black and white thinking. Even if I'm also an unsympathetic excuse of a human being, I just suppress it most of the time.

 

[Jonn]

It took me a very long time to embrace schadenfreude. lol
I rarely do so, but when it happens, I am comfortable with the knowledge that the person or ppl involved deserve it.
Being an angel is so god-darn boring.

 

[Azeth]

It is definitely not a bad thing to indulge mildly into the suffering of others. Misery likes company after all.

Also, my mind immediately goes to this song seeing that word:

Which tells me I listen to this song way too much. lol

 

[tree]

The first time one of my friends explained sovereign citizens to me, I thought he was joking, lol

This?

Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

"Sovereign citizens have a pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law, and claim not to be subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them."

 

[JayLapointe]

Watching videos of karmic retribution in action and enjoying them, even if it should be shadenfreude, no harm no foul there I say.

 

[Kayla55]

Deriving pleasure? Or as a type of therapy, sort of role-play-reversal without harming others just feeling, identifying humanness in reaction, maybe hit the pillow.....just get anger out, express.

Maybe more types of prisoners who could be rehabilitated but such therapy would seem extreme.

Onthou net: we never really know why someone does something, how they may not want to talk about it, but if it's schadenfreude then I'm obviously on another page. LOL

 

[Kayla55]

Autism and narcissistic abuse? Are people on spectrum more or likely to become abusive than NT in sense of understanding/interpreting social Outlook or dark sense of humour?

I asked question once and got no response. The question was how do you deal with embarassment? I suppose when I was younger I mostly blocked it out, would have go lay down spells that I found out later were called .....

Just thoughts on therapy and autism, doesn't always have to be family related, actually society impacts us, the reactions, way people treated your parents and how reacted when you got home.
We all human at the end of the day,

 

[Azeth]

Deriving pleasure? Or as a type of therapy, sort of role-play-reversal without harming others just feeling, identifying humanness in reaction, maybe hit the pillow.....just get anger out, express.

It's definitely more deriving pleasure from other's misery. Especially if it's someone a person dislikes and finds joy seeing the other suffer.

To physically engage in inflicting intentional harm to someone for one's own pleasure, is immediately going into the realm of sadism.

Though what you stated about attacking something that isn't a person and imagining that person. I guess that could be Shadenfrude. Though it kinda seems like grey area between that and sadism.

 

[Forest Cat]

Schaden - damage
Freude - joy

Gotta love the Germans, they have the best words.

 

[Judge]

The first time one of my friends explained sovereign citizens to me, I thought he was joking, lol

The one aspect of this kind of stupidity proliferated through the Internet does bring up the seriousness of motorists who should be aware of just how potentially precarious it can be to participate in even the most benign appearing conversation with a law enforcement officer who has just pulled you over.

Where it may be quite beneficial for American citizens to be fully aware of their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights pertinent to search and seizure, apart from self-incrimination.

And especially to understand the sensitive nature of law enforcers who are now going to be more prone to asking if you have any weapons in your vehicle. Whether you legally practice open or concealed carry, and are in complete compliance of state and federal firearms laws- or not. And that if you answer positively, expect the demeanor of the officer who stops you to change dramatically.

Federal firearms laws are dramatically changing, in effect impacting both state and federal laws in the process. With so many "jumpy" police officers who feel caught in the middle of it all.

 

[Kayla55]

Schaden - damage
Freude - joy

Gotta love the Germans, they have the best words.

I suppose swopping roles from victim-gladiator to Gestapo could be the opposite of Roman theory on war or social cowards, depends how blood thirsty the crowd was, and then mediaeval Europe wasn't exactly civil throwing cabbages/tomatoes or cheering the execution.

 

[Angular Chap]

The sovereign citizens, they call themselves “Freemen on the land” in the UK but I think the whole idea seems to have died out, I’ve not heard the term here in years.