ABSTRACT
As extraordinarily varied as people are, we become in some real sense the same as everyone else when we suffer. This is particularly true in instances of great suffering. The elasticity of Schadenfreude, the emotional corollary of justice, can accommodate terrible suffering. The awfulness of suffering I discuss here will set the stage for a parallel with the awfulness of justice (or what others consider to be justice for us). I want to probe whether the pleasure we take in the suffering of another does in fact say more about the sufferer than it does about us.
