Schadenfreude

OK, I admit it, I watch it for James Spader's Alan Shore!!!! Ya!!!! for James Spader!! :-)
Anyway,
This episode was about him defending Heather Locklear's Kelly Nolan a.k.a Black Widow.

OK, no story about Boston Legal, but, this term Schadenfreude,
I particularly like to mm... think about it.

The Wikipedia's definition is:
Schadenfreude is a German expression (from Schaden: damage, harm; and Freude: joy) meaning pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune or shameful joy. The word is often capitalized, however since all German nouns (proper or common) are capitalized it should be possible to spell it lower case in English.
It is usually believed to not have a direct English equivalent. For example, Harper Collins German-English Dictionary translates schadenfreude as malicious glee or gloating. An apparent English equivalent, derived from Greek, is epicaricacy. This word does not appear in most modern dictionaries but does appear in Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1727) under a slightly different spelling (epicharikaky) and gives its etymology as epi (upon) + chara (joy) + kakon (evil).
Taken in a broader sense, it could apply to the feeling of being “blessed” because there are always people who are worse off than ourselves. Instead of compassion or pity for those less fortunate, we are thankful that it is they instead of us. However, it is never used in that sense in German, where it always carries a negative connotation. German actually draws a distinction between "secret schadenfreude" (a private feeling) and "open schadenfreude" (Hohn) which is outright public derision. Ultimately though, in the english language Schadenfreude is commonly characterized as "sick pleasure".
I guess... most of the time, most of us are Schadenfreude, not much directly related to the above explanation, but more related to this particular Boston Legal's episode. Alan Shore was pleading to the juries, if it's out of Schadenfreude that they wished to convict Kelly, then, they had to really think about it, as this case has no evidence at all, and the whole case was brought to the court, out of the Schadenfreude of the society.

As it is, that's what most of us do sometimes. (on purpose, or accidentally) Therefore, we hear ourselves, we hear others commenting negatively about other people every day, every hour. I believe it is because of this little devilish feeling that makes most of us, commiting such act, every day, every hour. It is because, by doing this, we, almost!! will feel justified with our own wrong doings. By saying who and who is bad, by saying who and who is incapable, by saying who and who is impolite, by saying who and who is useless, by saying who and who is not friendly, not kindhearted, judge them... YA!!!! and Yeh!!!! we feel great!! Schadenfreude!!

Therefore, it's time to remind ourselves "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." (John 8:7)

Isn't it??