Shocking!!!

Oh yeah one last point Johhny, someone cant “take” the moral highground, they can only state their opinion and why they disagree with yours

You can however CHOOSE to feel they are doing something else, or feel they are taking some elevated stance but thats your own perception and not in anyway an actual factual tangible thing, merely your own psychological wranglings and your reaction to anything but bland agreement

Its an innalienable right to choose to feel oppressed, bullied, attacked, personally insulted and a whole host of things you might choose to feel when someone doesnt agree with you. But they are simply stating their case, youre the one choosing how to feel in response to it and a different person would feel totally differently

One persons aggressive debater will be a timid shrew to someone else, each person has their own turn of phrase, style of putting a point and their own ways of reacting or feeling about each tone, style of prose or approach but the reaction doesnt define the action, merely the person who is reacting

People joke about cancer everyday, whats more present than that? Infact even people WITH cancer joke about it

Infact i know someone who has devoted her entire life to fighting to stop certain forms of racism and yet she absolutely loves racist jokes of any ilk, a lecturer I was banging from a northern college a few years back was a hard line feminist, but only ever told sexist jokes

Seeing a topic as serious AND being able to interjectin or see humour in it is only out of the grasp of quite two dimensional people across the board or because to THEM that particular topic isnt one they can joke about

But every single joke in existence pretty much is at someones expense, so the jokes those people DO find funny probably annoy someone somewhere as much as they proport to be annoyed on their chosen topics of straightfacedness

So unless humour is going to be completely outlawed it has to be accepted its an individual thing with no right or wrong as is shown by how different cultures and different people hand death and other miserable topics in general

Some think such things are solemn serious affairs, others thing otherwise. Niether is right or wrong, they might arrogantly think they are but that means nothing

Its just different outlooks and in this case different sense of humour

Simple as

Actually, after re reading your post I’m even more confuddlicated Johhny

Cant you see that the actual instance is one thing and the general topic (child abduction/paedophillia) is linked but not the exact same actual thing?

And hypocrisy is saying you wouldnt do something then doing the complete opposite, I dont recall ever saying I wouldnt joke about anything at all, infact I dont think there IS anything I wont find or look for the humour in

I also didnt say that I WOULDNT call piss poor parents piss poor parents either

And as there isnt some universal law that says the ONLY choices that are available are to humourlessly call people piss poor parents or jokingly hug them till their heads fall off I am at a complete loss to see where the hypocrisy is really so I am hoping you can elaborate and show where I have said I wouldnt do something and then did it coz its got me beat :roll:

You’re not telling me anything I don’t already know. After all, I was just stating my opinion. It is a discussion board after all (who keeps telling me that?)

And to R.O.T.T – this has been raging for a while (especially between me and uber, we’ve been having a personal war of words for some time. Actually, I’m starting to detect a bit of a sexual spark between us…) so it’s not the first thing that sprang to uber’s mind.

a child is missing and you think your long drawn out bull
somehow qualifys your total ignorance
it never will
type as may words as you like
it wont change the fact you have shown yourself