Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

And murder is fucked up yet we've all laughed at murder jokes. There was a Maddie joke posted in the joke thread all but two or three days ago, which I thought was quite funny.

Comedy should have no barriers. If you start putting imaginary lines everywhere whereby anything past it is unacceptable and anything under it is acceptable and therefore fine to joke about, you create a 'scale of offense', and that is inconsistent. Who decides when the line has been crossed?

Either everything is acceptable or nothing is, and nobody wants to live in a world where we can't joke about anything, therefore I think 'everything is acceptable' wins, (or should do anyway, so long as the jokes are contextual, and I'd say this is.)

For what it's worth, I don't think it's one of the better threads on the forum, but I have no problem with it myself.