What's with the glee over another DUer's wife's (possible) suffering?

[Hekate]

46. There is no glee over illness. Instead there were dozens of posters trying to find a solution...

... trying to get someone to breathe into a paper bag long enough to stop the hysterics so that he and they could find a solution through logical thinking and planning. Apparently logical thinking and planning are considered cold-hearted, even heartless, and certainly empathy-less. Apparently over the top hysteria and rage are considered so much more of an indication of sensitivity and true love, somehow.

Yet literally dozens of DUers, even those of us who vehemently disagreed with his characterization of the source of his dilemma, tried to come up with suggestions and possible solutions. Indeed, one poster (theboss) walked Will through the process step by step until he saw that there was a way through it.

Will Pitt had relied on the inaccurate information of an acquaintance (with a vested interest in the outcome?), and when it all went pear-shaped, he reverted to what has become the favorite object of his free-floating rage: President Obama (who himself is an actual human being and not a cardboard cutout). When a solution was reached with the help of several DUers, and when it became evident that Obama and the ACA were not actually the perps, did Will back down? I must have missed it if he did.

Instead when called on it he said that this venue was just an online board and that he was only venting as could be expected (sorry that is not a precise quote). Contrariwise, cui bono, when someone has spent over a dozen years developing a readership and a following, and wishes to be taken seriously as a political commentator, some accuracy is owed to the reader. Will is himself a public figure of sorts and invites commentary of what he publishes.

But schadenfreude over someone's illness? No, I don't see that.