No, it really doesn’t. It’s a kludge to allow hostile humour against people you don’t like, while protecting those you do, all while claiming impartiality.
The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.
Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.
Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.
Dark humor is humor generated from your own pain.
Edgy humor is humor generated from the pain of others.
The first one is funny, the second is boring and shitty
Eh. I’d say there’s exceptions. Maybe more to the point of “Don’t Punch Down”?
I can laugh all day at the rich/privileged suffering the consequences of their own mistakes.
“Don’t Puch down” is good rule to live by.
Maybe the rich/privileged are controlling/influencing so much of our lifes that this counts as your own pain.
No, it really doesn’t. It’s a kludge to allow hostile humour against people you don’t like, while protecting those you do, all while claiming impartiality.
Not certain the rich feel pain the same way, but you’re right. Punching up has value and often is the right thing to do
Relevant Contrapoints: https://youtu.be/qtj7LDYaufM
I think its more the way humor is used/intended.
The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.
Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.
Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.