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Episode 67: Funny How?

Very Bad Wizards

The Difference Between Humor Theory and Moral Theory

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A distinction between humor theories seem more psychological to me, and that you can ask the question, what do people in fact, find funny? I agree that humor theories are more transparently psychological. Although i will say this, it would be a lot weirder if there were a theory humor that thought,. like, say, kant or a pure consequentialis could generate a procedure to determine what is funny. That's how you might actually determine, for any given act, whether it's moral or not. Allso true about morality. Well, they didn't, they're not sufficiently informed of the reevempirical facts, or something like that. But you could say that

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