Schadenfreude
n : delight in another person's misfortune
According to the NY Times, there is a location in the brain attached to schadenfreude. Can this discovery be put to practical use? Can we track and identify people who are more likely to find joy in the pain of another by a brain scan?
It would in the long run provide great crime prevention. Well that is only if the environment has no affect on this behavior and if we are all not disposed to occasionally feeling schadendfreude.
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