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[Frizzle]

And what if it's a joke at a person's expense? It's humorous to some but it's an insult to another.

 

Either everything is funny, or nothing is. You cannot put a line on what is acceptable and what isn't, otherwise you'll enter the realms of subjectiveness and eventually nothing will be allowed to be funny in the sense that it MAY offend people.

 

Personally, I think the Boston Marathon was a blast.

[Drakonid]

Either everything is funny, or nothing is. You cannot put a line on what is acceptable and what isn't, otherwise you'll enter the realms of subjectiveness and eventually nothing will be allowed to be funny in the sense that it MAY offend people.

 

Personally, I think the Boston Marathon was a blast.

I think he was answering to the part about getting offended being retarded. A joke being offensive will certainly won't stop me, but it's pretty idiotic not to acknowledge the validity of someone else taking offense in it.

[Keil]

Don't take everything so seriously and be offended. Talking on the internet is different from real life. You can reprimand someone in real life, but your voice would be placed on deaf ears in a forum or chat room. You will just fuel trolls who enjoy making people enraged. If you get irrationally angry and uncontrollably fight back, the trolls easily accomplished killing two towers with one plane.

[Frizzle]

I think he was answering to the part about getting offended being retarded. A joke being offensive will certainly won't stop me, but it's pretty idiotic not to acknowledge the validity of someone else taking offense in it.

 

If you get offended by a joke, regardless of ill taste, you have an extremely low threshold for offensiveness.