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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Uh oh...the thread hijack continues! 
Well, the good thing about having an adult brain is that we're able to censor ourselves. Whether or not we choose to do so is why we're often held accountable for slips of the tongue. 
Risky comedy is only as humorous or nonbigoted as its audience receives it. People would have to take your word for it when you say it doesn't reflect personal beliefs. But, if people can't control their humor, I'd much rather they make overt jokes than do covert things that impact a group's life chances.
He wasn't really being "scientifically objective" because he wasn't removing the emotion and saying "ya know, this was a good thing...thank God that this happened...we would've never learned this without that...hai(sp) Hitler!"
The truth of the matter is that many natural and human-made disasters show us things about humanity. How the body works, how much humans can starve before killing and eating one another, the kindness of humankind, the evilness of humankind, the apathy of humankind, and so forth.
Slavery
The Holocaust
Trail of Tears
People who are stranded and became cannibals
9/11
Tsunami
Hurricane Katrina
etc. and etc.
The difference is that natural disasters and "bad luck happenings" are more or less chance so we can learn from them without feeling hatred toward the vile creatures who strategically crafted it. |
1. I think a lot of people would be surprised by me if they met me. I'm probably a little
too empathetic towards the suffering of others. I'll cry over natural disasters, civil wars, genocides, any sort of death or tragedy. The dark humour is somewhat of a coping mechanism, especially in my profession as an EMT. If you don't laugh you'll cry. BUT...the day I stop caring, the day I find myself feeling racist in any sort of way is the day I leave forever. Not even kidding.
2. Ironically, the ex pretty much said, word for word, what you said, minus the heil hitler. It was very odd to hear it from his mouth. He was a molecular genetics major and jewish by ethnicity only so he was astoundingly liberal in the field of scientific research. He literally could separate his feelings about his family and the nazis in general and the research they performed. It was astounding.
3. Discovery Channel has been doing a series called 'The Human Body: Pushing The Limits' and each episode concentrates on a different system and how it reacts when pushed to the extreme. It's quite fascinating. A lot of the incidents are things people get themselves into as well.