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Slimebeast on 16 April 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
Slimebeast said:

Your joke actually was funny. People use gruesome humor all the time, not just children, let's not pretend otherwise. It's called black humor, it's perfectly normal and it has a purpose (sometimes even to emotionally handle miserable situations, not that the Boston bombing necessary is particularly miserable for random people on forums around the world). 

Why be so politically correct about this when we on this forum are far away from the victims without any risk of offending anybody. Let's face it, this is a public news event (the bombing) and blown out of proportion (that's what terrorism does by its nature). There are gonna be all sorts of angles and reactions from people on a huge news event like this, including humor.

It's just in poor taste. He isn't from the US/Boston area.

Would you go to a stranger's funeral and make a joke like this?

That's why I emphazised that this is a global news and media event that will have all sorts of reactions and angles towards it (of which 99.9 % will not be personal).

Fact is that it's just another tragic event in the world, and there's an abundance of suffering in it already. It's not healthy to become emotionally invested in every disaster and misery that is bombarded on us through the news, nobody can do that and that's why we have internal filters that help to decide on to what degree to react on a specific event.

So, many people ignore the tragedy itself and choose to look at the implications from a society perspective and politically (who might be behind such a bombing and why, how the democratic society is vulnerable to terror, what implications could increased terror have on our freedoms, on security etc).

And like I said, another angle to deal with this is humor (which could tie in with the global media coverage aspect and how bizarre the implications are from it, or is a method for growing individuals to deal with severe matters, but which also is a phenomenon on its own because humor deals with everything).