02-05-2017, 08:16 PM
(02-05-2017, 03:46 AM)samhain Wrote: I feel like I range all over that spectrum. Some things just make me feel so bad that I could get sick. Other things, things that I think I should probably care about more make me feel absolutely nothing. Then sometimes I just stay in the middle of the road. I wonder if this is the exception or the rule.
Any given topic will push you to one side of that spectrum. Take the fire xxlt mentioned. I'm not from the greater Cincinnati area, I've never heard of it. If you talk about the Kiss nightclub fire however, it's a whole different thing to me.
I remember travelling abroad, and people made jokes about the 9/11 attacks. They weren't from the USA, so it didn't have the same impact on them as it would me. Just like the jokes would have a different impact on me, an 8th grader at the time of the attacks, than the impact on my uncle who was walking away from the buildings when the planes hit.
I don't know if xxlt was being specific to humor. My personal opinion is that anything goes in humor, as long as the objective of making people laugh isn't lost. Jokes that I find to be in poor taste I just try to ignore. But in my opinion, you can't dictate what is or isn't fair game in humor.
