It seems to me that this is a misapplication of the term *schadenfreude*.
Assume Russ feels that same way I do, I would clarify that I do not "take
delight in the suffering of another". Rather that I hope that a population
that is making horrible choices will directly experience the consequences
of those choices, and thus perhaps reconsider them. Unfortunately, there
will also be a lot of collateral damage, but "natural selection" has always
been a blunt instrument...


On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 6:12 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> This emotion, culpable though it may be, is so common there is a german
> word for it, *schadenfreude*.
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> Doesn’t that just roll off the tongue?
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Russ Abbott
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 23, 2020 5:21 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Second Wave is Gathering
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> I feel ethically corrupt to find myself hoping for a spike in COVID
> incidents among Trump voters. But in fact, that's what I'm hoping for.
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> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:11 PM David Eric Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> One should do a regression against the popular vote and against the
> electoral vote.  See if the difference between those regression
> coefficients carries even more information than the separate values.
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> On May 24, 2020, at 4:04 AM, <[email protected]> <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/05/07/as-states-reopen-covid-19-is-spreading-into-even-more-trump-counties/
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