wss what is your take on the quarterly, page-34

How is this relevant to FMS? It may explain the motives of some of the posters who haunt the threads:

Schadenfreude scha·den·freu·de
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The word referring to this emotion has been borrowed from German by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages.

Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate."


schadenfreude

Encarta:

noun

Definition:

gloating at somebody else's bad luck: malicious or smug pleasure taken in somebody else's misfortune

From Encarta on Sadism:

among the many explanations of the causes of sadism is the theory that the sadist, most often a male with a low sense of self-worth since childhood, is trying to prove importance and superiority by punishing others.

The term sadism, which is derived from the name of the Marquis de Sade, is also applied in a nonsexual, general sense to anyone who delights in cruelty.