(June 13, 2024 at 10:04 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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.
I guess it's kind of the same as the Michael Jackson baby/balcony situation. Lots of people were upset, and I was "meh".
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