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Humor is often a healthy (if misunderstood) response to something bad happening. While I'm not defending the remark at all, there's always going to be a crowd

Humor is often a healthy (if misunderstood) response to something bad happening. While I'm not defending the remark at all, there's always going to be a crowd that reacts to any joke made in such a context with an automatic irrational "You think $unfortunate_incident is FUNNY!?!"

dbrush 18y ago
Is irrational actually the word you're looking for?
- unalone 18y ago
  I suppose it's irrational because it's so easy to misinterpret, and because it's not always necessary. It's overused in a lot of ways.