08-10-2015, 11:50 PM
(08-10-2015, 11:14 PM)Surge Wrote: You know I don't like the idea that there are things too terrible or serious to make jokes about, like suicide, or 9/11. The entire purpose of a joke is to make you laugh, to give you a moment's release from a harsh reality with something stupid or silly, and if you won't let yourself laugh at jokes about a certain subject it's not because the jokes are bad, though they may very well be awful, it's because you're too attached to those various negative emotions associated with the subject to enjoy anything involving it. What kind of a world are we trying to build when we tell other people that they also need to latch onto those negatives and not appreciate somebody adding light to a very dark part of our world?
(08-10-2015, 11:16 PM)Surge Wrote:(08-10-2015, 11:15 PM)Battle Bee Wrote: Lemme guess, you had an encounter with a white knight.No just thinking back to one of the CF mods lecturing us on how suicide is SUPER DUPER CEREAL.
I mean it's certainly a bad thing and I agree people need to not just ignore it but "don't joke about something like that" is at best a poor choice of words.
(08-10-2015, 11:33 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote:(08-10-2015, 11:14 PM)Surge Wrote: You know I don't like the idea that there are things too terrible or serious to make jokes about, like suicide, or 9/11. The entire purpose of a joke is to make you laugh, to give you a moment's release from a harsh reality with something stupid or silly, and if you won't let yourself laugh at jokes about a certain subject it's not because the jokes are bad, though they may very well be awful, it's because you're too attached to those various negative emotions associated with the subject to enjoy anything involving it. What kind of a world are we trying to build when we tell other people that they also need to latch onto those negatives and not appreciate somebody adding light to a very dark part of our world?I guess some people don't really get what a joke is supposed to be.
Because you see it as funny, but not everyone is going to.
For the same reasons that Ehks stated.