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Originally Posted by filtherton
Well, the thing with humor is that it is a matter of taste. It's also a matter of timing and context. Just because you think something is funny doesn't mean that everyone who doesn't agree with you needs to lighten up.
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But when you have people enjoying themselves and having fun...... why post how disgraceful it is and how you deem this as an attack. When truly, I didn't see it as one. I suppose if I really looked hard and dug deep I could have.... but I looked at each post as what I believed it to be.... just humor and people having fun.
And even IF you believe it is an attack to be hurtful and mean to you personally or someone else... you truly had to dig long deep and hard. You can still just walk away and not post anything.
Having been the butt of jokes almost my entire life, I was paranoid for a long time every time someone laughed..... but then I realized. The more I worry the more it seems I am attacked. If I just move along, see the humor for what it is and not try to find something hurtful in it.... I may actually find it was funny and not hurtful in any way.
Don't like it, feel offended, whatever? Skip the post, PM the person you think is making fun of you and ask them..... whatever. But don't come out and cry how everyone is making fun of you and that it is ALL so harmful and hurtful and spiteful and unless you see it then you are part of the problem.
I find it funny that people in Politics who supposedly are so caring about others rights, are the ones so wanting to read into things, censor what people can do and lack a sense of humor, in which they can laugh at themselves and let people just have fun.
Like I said.... I know I was there. The thread helped not just by my laughing and making silly, but in reminding me how seriously and how bitter and looking for attacks I was.
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Originally Posted by 1010011010
Just because you think something is not funny, doesn't mean that everyone who doesn't agree with you needs to sober up.
I think his point is more that "You should all be ashamed of yourselves." type comments don't serve any particularly useful function and can damage the activity level of a community.
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Exactly.... and those that say "You should all be ashamed of yourselves." end up truly missing out on the fun, because they don't allow themselves to. They have to set an example to "what truly is funny and acceptable".