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Karmically en pointe

I think schadenfreude would be small-minded when the misfortune is unconnected to the actions of the Evil Person. It would be petty to rejoice if Donald Trump was, say, hit by a car.

But when the misfortune is so delightfully the consequence of the evil actions--when evil boomerangs on the Evil Person--then you have no choice but to invoke the Evil Person Clause. This is the very thing the Clause was made for.

You may go in peace, my son.

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