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Question: What is the ultimate form of Schadenfreude!?
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Sexual role playing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Any delight in the suffering of others indicates at least a tinge of cruelty!. It is a vicarious pleasure based on the suffering of others which one has not caused oneself!. If one is causing the suffering oneself then it is sadism, which of course, is Schadenfreude with you causing the suffering!. The ultimate I think would be any time someone sees someone innocent like a young child suffering and they take delight in it!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Reality television is the ultimate combination of voyeurism and schadenfreude!. Same thing with celebrity gossip!.

It doesn't get much more schaderfreudic than that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com