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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: Grimaldus
I believe it is wrong to joke about any loss of human life....you want to make a joke about a bunch of lizards go for it...it doesn't relate/hurt anyone.I have never ever ever cracked a single remark at the death of a human being. In fact, I don't think I've ever cracked -blam!- about death at all. Is it really more wrong to joke about the loss of one human life than it is to joke about the loss of thousands of species?
I'm not saying that the people spamming these threads just to troll shouldn't be banned or that said jokes are acceptable no matter what the context, but I don't think there's something inherently wrong with simply joking about a tragedy, did shakespeare not write a few tragic comedies in his time?Things that make this different from other tragedies:
1. It happened to America, one the the largest, most populous, most economically powerful countries on the planet.
2. It happened to New York, one of the most populous cities in the country (if not the most).
3. Because of it happening in such a populous place, the chances of someone you knew being dead were so much greater.
4. Because of the fact that it was broadcast over CNN, etc. people still have the images of people jumping out the building burned into their heads.
5. It also happened to the pentagon and (we think) tried for the whitehouse. This caused people to have an intense fear that they still deal with when they remember the day.
6. It was people attacking people. People attacking innocent people at that. It wasn't a natural disaster. Yes, those are terrible but the idea of people attacking people means that it could just as easily happen the day after.
All of those things compound into a psyche that, for the most part, was ravaged by and continues to be ravaged by the idea of the event. It's not so much laughing at tragedy as it is laughing at devastation, death, and fear. You're kicking someone, not while they're down, but while they're trying to get up which is just as bad.THANK YOU!