What a terrible tragedy. Few deaths, but many many wounded. Just a terrible thing to happen.

I only lived in Boston for a short while (going to BU before I transferred back home), but it's a good city. I hope victims and the city can recover from this tragedy. 

when i herad what happened i thought it was either Korea steering up shit or somebody trying to frame Korea to get us into another war. you know how rich people are, they will kill anyone for their stocks to go up.

Right....

Why can't people wait for facts before we start throwing the blame at random people/organizations?

This was really sad to hear.

nah, very unlikely

I think the theory that it was extreme right-wingers who wanted to state "we are the real patriots and we will fight to get what we want" with these bombings sounds pretty convicing, as I heard it was "Patriot's Day"

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.

No, you're right, man-children use it too, people who don't realize the importance and gravity of tragedies like these. Indeed not just children use it. You know, there are things you just don't laugh at cause it's just wrong.

To handle tragedy with humor, there are other ways. For example, my grandmother passed away in January. I loved her to death, but it didn't stop me from quelling my sadness by joking about some of her maneurisms she had when she was still alive, laughing with/about her. This is very different, his joke was taking a tragedy and making a joke of it by using irony.

@bold. We are on forums and there are people here that actually live in Boston and are close to the incident. I wish that no matter where tragedy happens, people will realize how truly tragic it is, whether the deaths occur in the Americas, in Africa, in the Middle-east, or in Korea. Human casualties of war/terrorism are a tragedy no matter where or how.

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).

Yep - no doubt about it, but that doesn't make it appropriate to jest. Jest to yourself and friends and family, not in an open forum where some might take offense. It's just proper etiquette.