Suffering And Jokes

In this modern era, it is not uncommon for people to use social media as a place to gain instant popularity. Sometimes it is used in bad ways by making inappropriate jokes. Unfortunately, many people find it funny and laugh at it.

In order to increase fame, some people make other people's misfortune content to laugh at. With the hope of increasing followers and the bonus of getting money from the videos they upload.

Humor should be created without hurting other people's feelings and even making people who see it lose their empathy as humans. But sometimes, people make it cheap and dangerous.

If seen, the media also sometimes displays it. Television shows showing people falling are considered funny by using narratives that are not worth listening to. The funny thing is that they sometimes pay the audience to laugh at it, so people often think it's something worth laughing at. In fact, not at all!

There are two reasons why someone laughs at someone else's misfortune to make you laugh: they don't feel safe and happy with their life or they don't understand that it was an unpleasant experience.

Jokes should not contain any harmful elements or harassment that would embarrass someone. Many people argue that it is a joke. But isn't there an ethics in joking that should be upheld?

Society has not fully been able to choose a joke that deserves and is not worth laughing at. Especially when the media has a hand in making things worse. The role of the media, which should be a means of education, actually seems to make it worse by deliberately showing extreme parodies by humiliating others.

Laughing at the misfortunes of others asserts superiority over them. In other words, when someone is made to look silly, it makes us feel better about ourselves.

I myself am one of those people who rarely laugh while watching television because how can it be worth laughing at when other people experience misfortune and even feel humiliated in a humiliating way. There are better ways to create humor. What's more, there are much better things to laugh about.

If everyone laughs at the misfortunes of others, it seems we need to be aware that the world has always known how sharp the difference between tragedy and comedy is. Maybe we should immediately check our sense of humor when we start to have trouble distinguishing the two.