Schadenfreude

I believe and trust that most people are generally good-natured, mean well, have empathy or at a minimum some capacity for decency & tenderness towards humanity. I’ve recently learned alarming truths from my psychology studies. There are malicious, soulless, empty-vessel vile monsters who knowingly murder hearts & souls—and have no remorse in doing so—or even conscience consideration for their own redemption at any level.

This revolting, callous thing feels better about itself when hating, harming and humiliating others—if others are even considered human. It has no empathy. It has no heart. It is dead inside.

When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence: let us be different from the evil, namely good! And he is good who does not outrage, who harms nobody, who does not attack, who does not requite, who leaves revenge to God, who keeps himself hidden as we do, who avoids evil and desires little from life, like us, the patient, humble, and just
— ― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals