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« on: October 22, 2014, 11:03:35 am »
Okay, I kind of understand where you all are getting at, but in my mind I'm thinking of something totally different. It probably goes against what some of the others have said here.
I don't know, like I understand dark humor has a lot of controversial stuff in it, but to me it's not as bad as you all say it is.
Kids at my school joke about things like STDs, Ebola, obesity ect., but in reality, I'm sure they know for a fact that it's a serious thing. And it's not like they go around the school telling their jokes to everyone. They just keep it to themselves because they know it might hurt some other peoples feelings. Now I know some of you are thinking, "well, if they know it hurts others feelings, then they wouldn't joke about it at all!". True, but it's kind of the same thing with swearing. Some people don't like it, and others do it all the time. The people who do it all the time swear with their friends and people they know are comfortable with it. The people who don't like swearing never hear it, and if they do they just ignore it, and both groups are satisfied. I don't understand what the problem is. Same with drugs. There's a boy at my school who has had a hard time quitting weed, and he jokes about it all the time. It's just his way of coping. You can't tell him that drugs aren't funny, I mean of course he knows that! If that's his way of coping and it makes him more comfortable with what he's going through, I don't see a problem. The people who still think otherwise just leave it alone.
I was watching a YouTube video of someone playing a Barbie Horse game, and she was making jokes about cats being trampled by horses and whatnot. Someone in the comments got offended because ironically enough, her cat got killed after being trampled, and told the gamer it wasn't funny and that she should say sorry. The gamer replied back saying that she wasn't going to apologize because in reality, she had no way of knowing about the commenter's cat (She did apologize for the commenter's loss though). She also lost her cat, and she saying that she also lost her cat and joking about it was just her way of dealing with it at the time.
I probably went a bit off topic with this one, but the point I'm trying to get out is that a joke is a joke. You can't stop people from doing it. And just because someone makes a dark humor joke doesn't mean they're being selfish or trying to hurt others feelings. Freshman at my school joke about rape. Do you just assume that they don't know anything about rape, and how serious it is? We talk about things like this at school all the time in assemblies, class, or just with other teachers. They care more about educating us about serious topics rather than getting teenagers to stop, because they know it's just not possible.
I understand, topics like Ebola and suicide are serious, and no one should ever have to go through such a thing. But in my opinion, just because someone makes an offensive or dark joke, doesn't necessarily mean that they are a terrible person or are uneducated about it. (I understand if no one else feels the same way, but that's just how I see the situation :/ )