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Originally Posted by kayleigh.
Sorry but that pig was hilarious  |
Why? Is it the sunglasses? Or the apple in the mouth?
I think that our ability to respond to death with humor is interesting...and something I sometimes do, too, Kayleigh. Does the pig's picture seem hilarious because you know people aren't supposed to trivialize death (supposedly), and yet the people who killed the pig and then dressed her or him up in sunglasses did the opposite?
Most pictures of dead beings don't usually seem funny to me, but rather make me feel sober. Like this one of cyclone victims. If they had garish sunglasses put on their faces, would it make the picture funny? Or would it make their death seem even sadder.
I'd feel sadder if I saw someone trivializing their death by putting garish sunglasses on them....even though, of course, these victims wouldn't know they were being dressed up in death for others to enjoy. My response to the picture of the pig is similar. It makes me sad that people think the pig's life was of no value except as a source of amusement and pleasure for others.
