Late night weird thoughts: Feeling schadenfreude is human innate ability.
Consider this scenario.
I asked you to solve “1+1=?” and you did it. Do you feel happy?
Then I asked you to solve a complex question and you did it too, while other people could not. Do you feel happy?
You’re likely to feel happy over the second event and not the first despite being able to do both. Why is that so?
When we’re happy over something we accomplished, is it because we are proud of our skills, or that we are happy because other people could not do it?
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