moral dillemmas
I wonder how I would feel if I knew that I made somebody laugh so hard that they died?
I mean, some random person or a distant aquaintence... would it be a complement or an extreme source of guilt? Clearly if their friends/family were upset at me, or if it were a child I would be upset, however if it were an older person or the family were glad that at least the person died happy, where are the emotions? Where are they supposed to be? What about if it were somebody who was terminally ill or in a nursing home? Would that inspire you to visit people and say funny things? What if you killed somebody - from laughter- with a bad pun? or even just a joke that isn't all that funny?
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.asp
I mean, some random person or a distant aquaintence... would it be a complement or an extreme source of guilt? Clearly if their friends/family were upset at me, or if it were a child I would be upset, however if it were an older person or the family were glad that at least the person died happy, where are the emotions? Where are they supposed to be? What about if it were somebody who was terminally ill or in a nursing home? Would that inspire you to visit people and say funny things? What if you killed somebody - from laughter- with a bad pun? or even just a joke that isn't all that funny?
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.asp