Asklemmy

44151 readers

2628 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What do you think of people making memes/jokes about the recent Titan tragedy? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by 1337tux to c/[email protected]

72 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I mean like even if someone is for example criminal or scumbag they are still human and hoping for someone to die or make jokes of someone's loss of life isn't right. Or does someone think it is justified? I think it's morally wrong.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 1337tux 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I get your point and get it that people don't maybe have sympathy for them, bur making fun of anyone's dead crosses the line, at least for me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, that's because you're a decent human being with a conscience! I guess it depends on what you consider "making fun" of them. For me, I would want to make sure I'm being respectful to those who are now grieving., but ridiculing the stupidity and hubris of some of those involved seems fair game to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. Shame about the kid, though, apparently he didn't even want to be there but was forced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I wondered that about him right away. I told my husband it wouldn't surprise me if the kid went because his dad wanted him to.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're making fun of dead people too. Ever made a joke about the Titanic? Or some war related joke? Or AIDS? COVID?

Are these lives somehow less important, because they died decades ago? Or because they were anonymous?

The reality is, that each day thousands of people die. And we don't care. And that's okay to a certain degree. Why are these randos above being joked about?

[–] 1337tux 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think you have a great point. Maybe we aren't so aware of thing we say these days.