People like to take humor and turn it into "Hate" or "irreverence" or "prejudice" meanwhile hypocritically claiming that they themselves are freed of these vices. To tell the truth I'd rather be encumbered with these vices and have the benefit of a strong and healthy sense of humor to protect me from myself.
People who take themselves too seriously poison everyone around them.
Yes there is someone who set me off on this rant! I will explain, specifically, so that you can see what I mean.
I had a friend whose status message states "I am passionate about two things: Abolishing Abortion and human trafficking" here they get stuck in the sticky compounding problem.
If we are going to be drab and serious and shove an entire pack of preparation H up our backsides followed by a heated spiny twisting stick, we will acknowledge that Abolishing is a verb modified jointly by abortion and human trafficking as intended,
however, barring the pointy stick in the rectum, abolishing is a single verb. They said they were passionate about two things. So clearly abolishing can't be the only thing they are passionate about. this means the other thing they are passionate about is human trafficking, this leads me to conjecture that perhaps there is a causal relationship going on here: Abortion reduces the number of humans, this means less stock for the human traffickers, therefore, anyone who is passionate about human trafficking could reasonably be against abortion, just as a cattle farmer is against wolves showing up and eating his stock!
Here's where the hole puckers, because people don't like human trafficking. Actually that's an unfair generalization. SOMEONE must like it because it happens requiring a buyer and a seller, in seperate parts of the world so you can thusly traffick the peoples aforementioned. Anyhow, the majority of white americans are unfomfortable with it because they retain a vestegial attachment to the past, and this hits too close to home... for people who lived like 200 years ago... and were wealthy enough to own slaves... who were sold by their own people living across the ocean... who are still trafficking people and we sit and wonder about it... anyway, I digress.
The point is that the higher the pucker factor, I contend the more we ought to be able to laugh at ourselves and the topic. Take the comic The Far Side for example. The poor author has been dogged again and again by the find people of amnesty international because he portrays a few comical torture-related situations. I mean, come on, the idea that a torturer who hates his job and thusly is being tortured by torturing doesn't strike you in the least funny? Its like a hay farmer with hay fever, it's a cruel (but still grossly amusing) irony! and all they want to do is pucker up on the spiny twirling stick, and torture themselves about it by complaining to the author (which adds another level to the cruel irony as the people who are against torture are offended by the idea that a torturer might be tortured by having to torture people)
At any rate, we have trouble laughing at things, and often at that point we really NEED to laugh at them. Otherwise we'll die from some heart-related disease.
If laughing doesn't punish you, by all means laugh! if others will punish you for laughing, laugh at them, and then for your ballsyness, bravado, and ignorance, laugh at yourself. And if you can't do any of those things, you'd better call amnesty international and ask them to help you end your life because you are spending the duration torturing yourself!
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