Now, why does a man like to be made sad by viewing doleful and tragic scenes, which he himself could not by any means endure? Yet, as a spectator, he wishes to experience from them a sense of grief, and in this very sense of grief his pleasure consists. What is this but wretched madness?
- St. Augustine, Confessions [3.2.2]
Put that way, I can't help but agree... but, in the words of Eunice from Quo Vadis, "Do not ask me, my lord, for I am one of the mad!"
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