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How about the image of the dog / fire viewed by someone who was orphaned and horribly scarred for life as a child in a household fire? Trauma exists in all for
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
How about the image of the dog / fire viewed by someone who was orphaned and horribly scarred for life as a child in a household fire?
Trauma exists in all forms in our world. Sometimes the extremity of trauma is used in jest simply because it’s so extreme and at odds with the situation. That’s a form of absurdist humor that absolutely runs the risk of triggering someone that the extreme situation is personal to, but was never intended to hurt anyone.
I think almost everyone considers that situation - someone triggered by personal trauma when seeing a cartoon crab attacking a cartoon gopher with a knife on a programming blog about performance between two programming languages - sad and has empathy for those suffering from a relived trauma. That must be debilitating in life and no one is insensitive to that level of embodied suffering.
However, likewise, almost no one feels sympathy for the person who pulls out a code of conduct to kill any cartoon humor not designed for the Sunday serialization of a national newspaper.