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Dark humor and censorship | Connor Kianpour, guest host Stephen Kershnar

Brain in a Vat

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The Problem With Moral Jokes

If morality is a necessary feature of people or of the relations between them it would seem that there's no scenario under which these are moral jokes. So I'm not sure I understand that that claim. The response that I'm going to give I suspect is going to be satisfying in the sense that it's going to make you change your mind about your views if you are an already sympathetic to my project. But I do think that my response is going to underscore a huge difficulty in the philosophy of humor that I think has gone underappreciated by people that think about these issues.

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