What kind of behavioral changes would occur without the concept of sarcasm?

Answer 1

Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive

Always say the truth in sarcastic tones.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Sarcasm is a form of irony usually intended to communicate implicit criticism about the listener or the situation. It is used to provoke negative affect and is accompanied by disapproval, contempt, and scorn. Often it is spiced with a derisive smile.

There is nothing more beautiful than sarcasm. That is definitely an overstatement but it should balance the moronic comment which says that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. Whoever made that statement was desperately in need of a sense of humour himself.

Sarcasm requires quick wit and the ability to extract the minutest points of weakness in a conversation. So it is quite unlikely that it is the lowest form of humour as some would like to call it. Perhaps not being able to enjoy sarcasm is directly related to not having the ability to come up with sarcastic comments, which in turn creates a feeling of inadequacy, which in turn can spawn a Napoleon complex that can cause someone to conclude that sarcasm is the humour of the stupid.

The ironic speaker intends the listener detect the deliberate falseness. Sarcasm involves the understanding of social cues. It is gradually mastered by the young. Because of this, I rarely use it on children because they do not comprehend it and tend to internalize the inherent cruelty of the jibe.

I also do not think it is a universal humour. When I traveled the India I found that sarcasm falls on its face when used in humour to amuse friends from India. My attempts usually resulted in blank stares as they waited for me to finish the joke. Indian humour is much lighter and gentler than that of the West.

I also found this with numerous friends from the Middle East who were not yet Westernized enough to “get it”. Yet I would never dare claim these people are deficient in either humour or wit. They just have a different approach to life perhaps.

Sarcasm has also been a weapon of ennui. How better to show a weariness of the world than in a long slow sarcastic drawl that reeks of intellectual superiority and boredom? It reached great heights amongst the "ton" of the European elite over the past few hundred years.

If we did not have sarcasm or irony, humour would be very different in the West. Perhaps it would be heck of a lot kinder. Certainly it would change what often passes for "comedy" in mainstream television. So many of these programmes would not exist if there was no sarcasm. Friends, Roseanne, the Simpsons, are among the first to come to mind.

People would have to be more direct in voicing things, or certainly much more tactful. As the saying goes, "Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them."

Answer 2

A lot more bad language on here for example.

Irony can be and is entertaining. However low the wit, it is supposed to show.

It is practised every day in parliamentary debate and courtrooms across the world.

Answer 3

there would be allot of angry people out there ,sarcasm is another form of release,sometimes in a good way.Remember sarcasm is angers cousin