Can Jokes Go Too Far?
Of Course!
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Absolutely Not!
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I once read in the 'confess a secret' section of a magazine that a little girl jumped out of the closet to frighten her old granny. The look on her grans face showed something was wrong and so the little girl ran fearing she would get into trouble for scaring gran.The old lady had a heart attack and died.Years later the litle girl who has become a woman , says in her article that she has kept it a secret all her life..... Can Jokes Go Too Far? For this person it did.(poor kid) Beside that tho , Yes i believe so , as i have heard of many other cases where jokes have gone seriously too far , resulting in nasty injuries or un-desired results. Some people get carried away and forget common sense. Side: Of course!
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people dont realize how jokes can affect someone. they may not hurt physically but emotionally it can. weither people to it to embarress other people or just for some sick enjoyment that i cant bagin to comprehend. they can also just offend someone but people are laughing too hard to notice. so yes jokes can go to far. ive seen it all Side: Of course!
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Have you seen the College Humor prank war series? They're coming very close to going to far. Especially the sky-diving prank... Side: Of course!
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Which celebrities, specifically? Can you name any? If you can, you would then have to prove that it was a joke that went 'too far' that was the specific, or at least a major, cause of the suicide (as opposed to, for example: mental illness). And even if you can prove that in one instance a joke had caused the suicide of a celebrity, you could not expand that into a general rule. That is you could not say any more than that in this particular instance a joke had gone too far. Side: Absolutely not!
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celebrities in China, Korea... etc they are actually commiting suicide because of the word people say! like,, you should die, or why do u live.. It can hurt people, especially ones that appear on tv. Even if it;s not a general rule,, it has and it will continuously kill people. There's no such thing as a general rule in human society.(says in the humanities book.) people are all different.Their reactions, personalities.... Words can actually be the most threatening armament to people because it hurts people mentally. Side: Of course!
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Only if it truly is a joke, it cannot go too far. People have the choice of leaving an unpleasant joke situation most of the time, so the offense is there fault. However, if a 'joke' is truly malicious and sick, like chasing after somebody with a live chainsaw, then it is not a joke, it is a violation of another person's space and dignity. Side: Absolutely not!
Somebody once sent a joke to Mars. An engineering team working on a $125 million Mars orbiter used English units of measurement in their calculations while NASA used the more conventional metric system. The mismatch in measurements caused the orbiter to fire its engines too late to achieve orbit. Instead, it plowed through the Martian atmosphere, continued out beyond Mars and now could be orbiting the sun. Oh man, that was hilarious! Side: Absolutely not!
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