[Serious] Do you know someone whose child died after being left alone in a hot car? What happened to that person and their family?

I'm not the one that said Chuck Testa. See the [Serious] tag? I respect the serious tag. All I'm saying is that it annoys me that you think you're the be-all and end-all determining factor for what's funny and what isn't. Personally, I thought it was funny. Not clever or original, of course. Definitely low-effort humor. But it provided a juxtaposition between solemn and absurd that I thought was funny.

You coming in and informing us that it wasn't appropriate just reminds me too much of my grandmother in church. If anything, it's even more hilarious to think of you sitting in front of your computer frowning in consternation because someone typed something on an internet forum that you didn't approve of. Do you feel the need to control every conversation you see?

And anyway, where do you draw the line on something like this? The Reddit democracy seems to rate jokes about pedophilia, rape, and 9/11 pretty highly. "Just edgy enough," I suppose, to appeal to them. But this? Woah woah woah, a kid died, that's just unacceptable? Literally the only reason anyone cares is because we supposedly have the victim's brother right here; it's a human connection that's impossible to ignore, and now we've all got these feelings of empathy stirring inside us. But we all forget that everyone is human. Rape, pedophilia, and 9/11 are all human stories, too, but the simple fact that we're disconnected from them makes it okay to joke about? If you tried to make this exact same comment on one of those, you'd be sitting at -50, being accused of being a stick-in-the-mud, but here, you're being revered as a shining knight of virtue. It makes no goddamn sense at all.

I'm going to keep laughing at whatever I want, and if you don't like it, you can sod off.

/r/AskReddit Thread Parent