BE HONEST have you EVER laughed at those LESS fortunate than YOURSELF?

Answer 1

YES PLENTY OF TIMES, AND I ADMIT NOW I WAS WRONG FOR IT. I WOULD MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE GOING INTO THRIFT SHOPS TO GET USED CLOTHES, AND GOODWILL, PAWNSHOPS, AND PEOPLE DRIVING F*CKED UP CARS, BUT I WAS VERY WRONG FOR DOING THAT. JUST BECAUSE I COME FROM A FAMILY WITH MONEY DOESNT MEAN I SHOULD LAUGH AT PEOPLE LESS FORTUNATE. NOW I DONATE CLOTHS, AND TOYS, FOOD ECT.

Answer 2

Now again the evil does possess me, but its more due to the forbidden effect and its kind of like laughing at a funeral, it is painful to stop.

I dont think they are less fortunate than myself just in the particular situation i am successful but if they were seriously worse off than me i would just feel fr them.
I dont usually take pleasure from others failings, i have to be prompted.

There was that joke.
How do you get 20 somalians into a telephone box?
Put a can of beans in there.
How do you get them out?
Show them a tin opener.
(That was funny because the visualisation of a group of people being that desperate that they would stoop so low is funny but thats because im not famished so i dont feel the need or the depth of the despair this might come from. I dont want to i would rather laugh and be pleasured some what).

Answer 3

I don't laugh at people but I CAN be critical. I am constantly trying hard not to be judgemental (and mostly succeeding)and hope I would never laugh at people I knew to be less fortunate than I am.

Answer 4

It depends on what you take as a lucky person. I mean some people that we tend to see as well-succeeded, glamorous, charming and good looking can become very ridiculous because of their excess of vanity, and, for this reason, involuntarily funny. They are less fortunate than myself at my point of view. On the other hand, some careless people express such a generosity through their eyes that I'm forced to see myself as the real unfortunate one.

Answer 5

Well, by G-d! Hire the handicapped...they're fun to watch.

Seriously, I laugh at everyone and almost everything. I enjoy laughter even better when my jokes make the people I'm making fun of laugh with me. They're just jokes, people. And, no, I'm not politically correct.

And anybody that says they never have is a liar.

Answer 6

If I have, I'd say I have, but I'm being honest when I'm saying that I haven't. I don't find anything funny about people who don't have as much as me, but deserve things just as well as I do.

Answer 7

Never laughed at the poor no. I have however laughed at people in less fortunate situations as in they fall down the stairs or out of their chair :)

Answer 8

What the heck do you think I am doing here, anyway?

OK, serious answer?
In my "youth", of course I did. I did it out of ignorance.
Until the day where I DID lose everything I had earned and worked for...not once, but twice in life. So, I became what I had previously mocked.

Nothing like a little empathy, served with a big cold dish of humble pie to put life, and what you have (or don't) in perspective. Now, I am simply grateful for what I have in life.

Answer 9

I'd say yes, I have, mostly just to myself in my mind, but not in a mean way exactly....

My feeling is that when we laugh at people it's really because what they are dealing with scares us or makes us feel so uncomfortable that we resort to turning the whole situation into a joke in our minds, as a way of comforting ourselves. In a way all jokes are like this, aren't they? They all play on the idea that someone's weakness or limitation can be seen as comical.

I think deep in our hearts most of us feel sympathy for others and wouldn't laugh at THEM so much as at some aspects of their situation that, on a deep level, strike us as terrifying.

You know, your question made me think of something that's always fascinated me....

You take Jerry Lewis, who has been hosting the telethon for kids with muscle diseases for longer than I've been alive. I've always wondered WHY he does it. Then I saw some of his old movies.....

I truly believe that he developed his whole slapstick style by copying the odd spastic movements of kids with muscle problems. If you watch the movies, that's exactly the way he moved and talked. This isn't based on anything but my own suspicions, but I think he took on this role as spokesman for handicapped kids as a way of making up for that. I don't know...maybe I'm wrong. But I do think that finding humor at other people's expense is something universal, and everyone kind of has to make their peace with the fact that they've done it, in their own way.

Sorry for rambling and saying WAY more than you asked...

Answer 10

Never. What goes around comes around. You never know you may end up being the one less fortunate and would you like it if people were making fun of you??.