@TheFigen_ To be fair, nearly everything is better than politicians, including tapeworms, vampires, Freddy Kruger, and root canals. Cats have a much higher bar.
Not all people make edgy jokes, or at least some edgy jokes have been considered taboo by many. And the way we define edgy seems to be radically different between groups. What seems to be universally true is that dehumanizing any group with which we disagree sets the stage for violence. I imagine that Ghengis Khan and his men made lots of edgy jokes about the women they raped and the towns they slaughtered and pillaged.
No, I actually read the entire thread. And I guess I take exception to the idea that there is some context in which we can excuse the celebration and mocking of murder. If we can allow for that, mustn’t also allow making light of and celebrating rape? Of pedophilia? Of things so heinous that we haven’t thought of them yet? Wouldn’t it be better to hold some line of decency and say no, celebrating murder is simply not acceptable in polite society?
@HPluckrose So you seem to think it’s wrong to expect people not to celebrate murder? Of either Kirk or Floyd? It seems likely that social mores developed for a reason. They help to keep us civil.
@GadSaad@adamcarolla@AbdulElSayed El Sayed, Mamdami, Omar, and many others exude a certain smug, smarmy condescension that is utterly repulsive. Strange that so many either overlook it or don’t see it.
@WallStreetApes All liberal women need to forced to marry Muslim men, but on the condition that they be taken immediately to a Muslim country. So many problems solved.
@Nick87671529435@GadSaad fMRI doesn’t directly measure a release of dopamine. The researchers interpreted the results as consistent with dopamine release.
@GadSaad Westen, D., Blagov, P. S., Harenski, K., Kilts, C., & Hamann, S. (2006). Neural bases of motivated reasoning: An fMRI study of emotional constraints on partisan political judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(11), 1947–1958.