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I find it fascinating that when sufficient time has passed, it becomes acceptable to joke/make light of an event that killed 1000+ people. By the way, I don't
by broahmed 10y ago
I find it fascinating that when sufficient time has passed, it becomes acceptable to joke/make light of an event that killed 1000+ people.
By the way, I don't make this comment to embarrass or shame you; just making an observation. Sometimes I too grin at such jokes, but reflecting on the very real lives lost (and the countless family/friends of those who were connected to them) quickly sobers me.
And thanks for mentioning the plugin; downloaded! (I don't care for its use in this particular article but I'm sure it'll give me some chuckles when browsing tech articles)
- steve-howard 10y agoI think people just have different modes when it comes to tragedy. The first is empathy, where you think "holy shit a thousand lives ended suddenly." The second is a sort of abstraction where the people are more like characters in a story. I don't think people who tell dead baby jokes are actually thinking of how terribly sad it would be for an infant they loved to die.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoI think it requires a certain callousness of form though, you know reading the joke and then linking it to others. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it; I just think that it's an interesting observation that in a different culture no one would make the joke. Probably the dettached medium of communication (internet, anonymous) also has to do with this.