Does making jokes about a cannabalistic serial killer, for instance, somehow lessen the horror and allay our fears and revulsion? Or have we become hardened? If so (to either) why? & how?
I doubt it's only the times we live in with so much media coverage.
In Victorian England, for example, people joked about awful crimes
(excepting the Whitechapel murders (Jack the Ripper)--even the running patterers, who brought the news to the common people and the illiterate, with embellishments and jokes as well as drama, made no jokes about that, though sensationalism & humor were necessary to their jobs.)
2007-03-18
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