why do some people feel compelled to laugh when someone gets hurt/injured....? why is this.....?
2007-08-26 19:38:34 · 24 answers · asked by hey123 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I was thinking about this earlier. The reason I do isn't because I find it funny. I don't find it funny at all, but other people laugh and because they do, I do. So a few people who find it funny laugh and the laughter spreads from there. The other day we were playing basketball at school and this guy got hit in the groin (Which of course everyone think is hysterical- it isn't.) I think its horrible when it happens, not funny at all, and insulting to laugh at the guy- its embarrassing to him, it hurts, and it can be dangerous. Why the hell would it be funny? I use this as an example cause I have a strange...dislike of it. Of people thinking its funny and laughing when it happens and in movies and such. The point I'm getting at? When the guy got hit, I laughed too- even though I was appalled. The reason I laughed? Because, like I said, other people were laughing. Laughing is a social thing. Its a few people who find it funny and they infect everyone else.
2007-08-26 19:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by fslcaptain737 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In the past where people used to be helpful and kind, they were taught of what to do when a painful situation comes up. They would help them rather ask them if they are okay. In the present day where people are very much less educated and very much less religious, people laugh at other people's simple injury. Their mislead of human behavior has stimulated a sort of sadistic method of cancelling out the pity to the person injured. Thus conclusion, more educated people are more helpful...
2007-08-26 20:10:04 · answer #2 · answered by amakajaku 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientifically logical.
Its not so much that they like to see people suffer but more that they expect the person to be fine and it'll be a 'thing to look back and laugh at'. They laugh because relief and happiness comes out in the end.
But notice that if the pain continues, people end up changing their faces rapidly to shock and then fear and worry.
Its a sort of 'Hey, youre alive and fine, so lets laugh and be jolly for life and not be sorrowful!'.
2007-08-26 20:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by Dabidu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We should not laugh when someone gets hurt. May be those who laugh do not know the difference between
LAUGH AT SOMEONE OR
LAUGH WITH SOME ONE is entirely different.
Simple answer to your question, It is because of lack of education,parent's training and religious knowledge.
There was a time when a child used to learn from lap of a mother. But at present a child learn from laptop.(Internet).
nihon94@yahoo.com
2007-08-26 19:49:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ari 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I must admit I think it is funny to see someone fall down. It is not the fact that they may get hurt, but just the act that is funny. People have laughed at me when I have fallen and I laugh right along with them.
2007-08-26 19:42:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It helps dispell the tension that is caused by another person being hurt..that, or they are just not sure what to do..they may think that they probably were not hurt, so rather than ask if they are okay, which might make themselves look foolish, they choose to find the situation humorous.
2007-08-26 19:47:18 · answer #6 · answered by ~*Briana*~ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the injury i suppose, you dont laugh when you see someone get hit by a car. more simpler accidents like tripping over something or you bumped your head on a light post can be found humorous because it may either be due to a distraction or just plain stupidity.
2007-08-26 19:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by angel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Admittedly, it incredibly is particularly situations complicated to no longer chortle while somebody else falls down or does something clumsy. For some reason, many everybody is programmed to think of that stuff is humorous. from now on, you ought to in all probability attempt to you may wish to make certain that the guy is effective. additionally, attempt to refrain from guffawing as much as attainable. the guy is in all probability already embarrassed. this is ideal to no longer upload to their soreness.
2016-10-17 02:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there laughing at the how the person got hurt-not the fact that they are hurt. at least that is what i have seen.
laughter is medicine-the ego just needs to be put in it's right place for it to help heal properly.
2007-08-26 19:56:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but i think its stupid
i feel bad for people that get hurt :(
i think they laugh because they're just following along with other people, who think they are supose to be laughing as well.
becuase its really not that funny
2007-08-26 19:41:49 · answer #10 · answered by Dan Lovely Bones 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋