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Are there topics you can't/shouldn't joke about? Why or why not?

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AuRevoir · 36-40, M
They’re all subjective. All of us have different lines and different codes we live by.

What offends one, doesn’t offend another. And that pattern continues endlessly. The person offended today may end up laughing at something else that offends someone tomorrow…
@AuRevoir No, not all issues are subjective, certain things should not be touched.
AuRevoir · 36-40, M
@NativePortlander1970 They’re subjective whether you like them to be or not. You can’t dictate another person’s personality. You can criticize it because you personally feel that way, and one can laugh at it because they personally feel that way. It’s literally the definition of what subjectivity is.

It’s a feeling. Of certain comedy stylings make one person happy. A person will gravitate towards that. If it makes another upset. They become offended by it. But you can not dictate what is wrong or right. Considering humor is incredibly abstract and obtuse in what will generate a response. It is not mathematical or something that can be predicted by nature.

The world used to thrive off making fun of scenarios that involved men in dresses. Now they condemn such things and tell people to be sensitive towards it and how dare they. Even though a majority of this humor was used in the 80’s 90’s and even early 00’s…

People can choose to be offended by things as well, which is why there is an argument against subjectivity. But I would rather not have my life be regulated by anyone. And that includes you and your opinions as well. My freedoms are my own and I will use them as such.
@AuRevoir So then, would you do an open mic bit on the hilarity of school shootings, hmmm?
AuRevoir · 36-40, M
@NativePortlander1970 obviously. If I thought it was funny. Comedians do it all the time. The SW feed as well as YouTube comments are full of “psshh Americans” and small jabs poking “fun” at crisis. It happens all around you. Have you yelled at every person who’s left a similar comment on the internet? You can block them, you can criticize them. But you can’t change their mind on whether they found it funny or not. They kick that Americans have the problem because to them it is political humor. They believe that the solution to the problem is to give up certain rights you have.

I am pro humor for almost anything and everything. If you think you’re going to make me for feeling guilty over anything it’s stupid. People are suffering all over the world, on a planet with billions of people and the problems are diverse. Victims of school shootings are not special in any way shape or form. What criteria do you use to say a teenager who lived to be 14 is any different an it’s tragedy than a child who only lives to the age of 4 and died. At what point is the cut off of life no longer sacred? And under what conditions. If we are to live our lives this way then what offends one person for their tragedy should be considered as well. People should never use the term “I’m starving!” In humor.. “I’m so hungry I can eat a horse!” No jabs of humor should be used because plenty of children genuinely die of hunger every year.

The list would be endless. Death is abundant. It is everywhere and is a cycle that will not stop. If you believe one type of joke is so wrong that it should be controlled (which probably all of us have that feeling towards whatever topic we’re sensitive about) but then begin to dictate and enforce those preferences you hold. I’m reality it becomes a never ending continuation. And at that point all humor is essentially a “sin”

When my perspective is that humor is a necessity. It is not evil. It is funny because it’s “wrong” it’s why rape jokes can be funny. Pedophilia jokes can be funny. Humor is an important learning and teaching tool. To bring up the harshest subjects. And paint them in a light of contrasting logics and exaggerations to point out why these tragedies suck. Why they’re stupid that they happen in the first place. And why we should all care.

The moment you’re no longer allowed to make fun of a subject is the moment no one cares any longer. Because you take the one light the world has, and you stifle it. It’s the entire reason the LGBTQ+ movement lost its momentum. Because they were being treated like saints and gods. And like certain dictators in the world. North Koreas for example. Where they were beginning to pass laws to arrest you and fine you for doing so. Some people in the UK already having been arrested because of these laws.

A lack of humor is a lack of intelligence. Especially on such critical matters. Humor is a weapon that will be used to destroy those that wish to stifle the worlds truths. It breathes more humanity into its victims. And causes one to actually sympathize and feel intellectually inclined to seek out justice for victims. Without it, it only becomes “somebody else’s problem” and the world shrinks with its caring when you take that away..

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