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It's disgusting exploitation and degradation of a human being.

18 (20.9%)

It's pretty terrible.

14 (16.3%)

I don't care about it.

6 (7%)

Sort've funny.

15 (17.4%)

Absolutely hilarious.

21 (24.4%)

Other Opinion ( Please Post )

2 (2.3%)

Don't care / View poll

10 (11.6%)

Total Members Voted: 86

[Acanthus117]

I don't know. I pretty much fail at debating and all that stuff.

[Jackrabbit]

It's kinda confusing, actually.

I'm not sure it's possible to justify taking pleasure in other people's pain.

HAHAHA YEAH

There is a justification for everything. It's just that in this case it doesn't lie with Jesus' teachings.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

This is all I need to justify that pleasure taking

A song does not justify finding pleasure in other people's suffering. :/

It justifies it for me. =p

Anyway, didn't Jesus explicitly state that he without sin should throw the first stone? So, basically, by criticising people taking pleasure in other people's suffering, you're breaking another one of the major morals Jesus spread. One of the few he outright stated, too.

If I'm remembering correctly, that story actually originated very late, as such things go, I believe it was sometime after 1000 AD it began appearing in texts...


My internet is too shitty to stream the video, so I just voted for hilarious on moral principle.

It would seem most people either don't care or find it funny, even if it's only a slim margin...

[Pathos]

Yeah, considering that little story is actually opposes your point rather than strengthen it, I'm not sure why you brought it up.

I thought we were shoehorning Biblical phrases into the thread for no real reason.

Yeah, seeing my dad electrocuted would freak me out and leave me pretty shaken. I don't usually find someone getting hurt funny unless I'm sure it's pretty minor.

Eh, he lived.

[Jackrabbit]

If you want to shoehorn a biblical phrase, make sure you shoehorn it correctly.

It needs to have no real relevance to the situation at hand, but it needs to look like it does. And it only works if people aren't willing to check it.

[Mishy]

I voted Absolutely hilarious. I havnt watched the vid yet because my connection sucks but im sure ill laugh my arse off.

[Maric]

I thought it was pretty funny.

[Karnewarrior]

Only funy for a little while. It got boring pretty quick, as other peoples pain tends to do. I laughed until I cried at the poor dude hitting the pole though.

[Nolor]

I found it neither amusing nor demeaning. I watched the entire thing with absolutely no reaction at all, save slight annoyance (due to the incredibly shaky camera).

I guess I'm in the minority?

It seems like it might be a fun thing to do, but I didn't find it fun to watch, for whichever reason.

[Nilocy]

I found it quite funny. Nuff said.

[Heron TSG]

Only funy for a little while. It got boring pretty quick, as other peoples pain tends to do.

QFT

[Pathos]

Huh, it's even again.

[Jualin]

As I cannot, with complete honesty, believe the man shown has taken drugs to get high, I prefer to consider it a shallow manipulation of another human that is equivocal to pranking an idiot. Still was rather funny at first, before it carried on monotonously for the rest of the video. Still, it livened the day of the "crackhead" and the people that took the video with the only downside probably being the bruise from walking into the pole and a good deal of exhaustion (and, well, the arrest. But that's something I don't want to bother talking about here as either a negative or a positive.) Still, I'm glad they didn't try anything more damaging to the man.

Tl;dr version: Funny, but I prefer comedians.

[Pathos]

The best part of the entire thing had to be where he threw his coat over the dot, shouted out, "I GOT YOU MOTHERF**CKER!" and then, when they put the dot next to him again, shouted out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Some Star Wars shit, that.

[Zombie]

Manipulating people for amusement != good or funny

I believe that people who take pleasure in manipulating others for their entertainment are very base, ignorant, and underdeveloped. Anyone with the ability to think, "What if that were me? Or someone I cared for?" would realize that it really isn't funny. Its disgusting and terrifying that someone can be that badly taken advantage of. Things like this make me depair for civilization, just like religious groups killing people over cartoons.