That's a type of shock humor. Why does one laugh? Laughter is entirely a defense mechanism. Laughter is a defense against hostility, a replacement for hostility, a defense mechanism against guilt, embarrassment.
You see something like that and you think, well, "That's beyond tasteless." Except it's, sort of, true. I've heard from quite a few people how they had ideas of killing their babies when they can't stop crying.
You see something like that and you think, well, "That's beyond tasteless." Except it's, sort of, true. I've heard from quite a few people how they had ideas of killing their babies when they can't stop crying.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
