You know what I mean. We, as people of the internet. We laugh at Aids, death, homosexuals, mocking of religious figures, social groups, jokes about major disasters, etc. Why? Why is it that we find misfortune and disaster comical? Why do we find situations that most people would agree are utterly disgusting and horrible, hilarious. I wonder this sometimes.

4chan.

I don't find it funny, only 4trolls do.

Aids is simply fun, because you die because of your own fault! It's almost like becoming an hero!

No, some people is born with Aids. Thats not funny.

...so we can have more dead baby soup. Hooray! Sorry all you people with AIDS

I have also been laughing at misery before being active in internet communities. It's just that I think that only people who actually laugh about that stuff anyway actually gather in such forums, others don't find it funny and aren't active.
You're not like that because you're on forums, you're on forums because you are like that.

This thread makes me think of a bit by the greatest dead comedian ever, Bill Hicks.

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because – this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus, murdered; Martin Luther King, murdered; Malcolm X, murdered; Gandhi, murdered; John Lennon, murdered; Reagan … wounded. But it doesn't matter, because – it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."

THe people who tell you not to laugh at people with Gonorreah, at that fat emo chick with the fake boyfriend who killed herself, etc. are just trying to make life shorter for you.

Laughter is empowerment. When we laugh at other's misfortune, we lessen our fear of those misfortunes. We lose our instinctual "RUN AWAY AND CRY" impulse.

Indeed. Laughing about other people also includes laughing at myself, I am highly positive that even when suffering of a terminal cancer, I could still laugh about people making cancer jokes. That's how I am.

Society tells us these things are funny.
We laugh because we conform.

Eventually we actually do find it funny.

When people on the internet poke fun at tragedy, we try to evoke negative reactions from people like Krob, which is really the only thing funny about it.

I don't laugh at Aids. Death in animations is only adrenaline, action, not a joke to laugh at and I think only a sadist person would laugh at even a stickfigure dying (except the case when the stickfigure dies out of stupidity which is just an innocent joke, not a massacre). I know a gay dude and yea, he makes me laugh because of his behavior... I mean, come on, he's a guy acting like a woman ! Yes, mocking of religious figures is a really big problem... I'm not a really that big fan of the "negative Jesus" in Madness... Everyone laughs at jokes about major disasters because that makes the disasters not seem that disastrous I guess... Is that enough? :Happy:

Mocking at religious figures is one of the oldest forms of parody human kind knows.

Well yea, it is parody but... couldn't they find another subject...? I mean... we parody our own religions... Doesn't that sound bad to you ? At least a bit... ?

Well yea, it is parody but... couldn't they find another subject...? I mean... we parody our own religions... Doesn't that sound bad to you ? At least a bit... ?!!

Edit : I am very sorry for double posting. It seemed like it didn't post to me... Sorry, won't happen again...

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Well yea, it is parody but... couldn't they find another subject...? I mean... we parody our own religions... Doesn't that sound bad to you ? At least a bit... ?

No, not at all. You also completely ignored my point. People have been parodying religious figures for ages, nobody cared. Nowaday's political correctness makes it so hyped.