
Dark humor and censorship | Connor Kianpour, guest host Stephen Kershnar
Brain in a Vat
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The Moral Problem With Immoral Jokes
Mark O'Mara: What makes a joke immoral, if it would be immoral at all, is that it's wrong. He asks why aren't all jokes are immoral and none of them touch your body or your stuff? And you might think some jokes are deserved, right? If someone makes a joke at Hitler while he's alive, you might think, let's a deserve joke. So like my claim about the relationship between morality and humor is not about objective morality but rather its relationship with conventional wisdom.
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