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monster · 09-06-2007, 08:50 AM

Discuss

One poster commented that they don't like cruel humour. Isn't all humour cruel at some level? Surely something is being laughed at, and at some point that thing will relate to a person?

Or is the opposite true? Is there no such thing as cruel humour? Are amusement and suffering incongruous intentions, so that something can be either cruel or humourous, but not both?

09-06-2007, 08:50 AM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Humour is cruel by definition Discuss One poster commented that they don't like cruel humour. Isn't all humour cruel at some level? Surely something is being laughed at, and at some point that thing will relate to a person? Or is the opposite true? Is there no such thing as cruel humour? Are amusement and suffering incongruous intentions, so that something can be either cruel or humourous, but not both? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart