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Humor is one of the ways humans process tragedy. Our modern culture's hostility to humor makes the emotional aftermath of tragedy worse by removing this coping

Humor is one of the ways humans process tragedy. Our modern culture's hostility to humor makes the emotional aftermath of tragedy worse by removing this coping mechanism.

macintux 5y ago
When it comes to random people on the Internet making jokes about mass casualty events, it certainly feels more like callousness than coping.
cafard 5y ago
Pain that one shares makes for great humor. Pain that one does not makes for uncomfortably bad humor.