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Author Topic: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?  (Read 2006 times)

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Discuss.
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 09:01:36 pm »

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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 09:07:07 pm »

Not if the joke is over 18 years old.
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 09:50:52 pm »

Depends.  Online, it's usually not so bad.  Offline, you have a 100% chance of getting called a heretic and stoned on the spot, unless you're joking with friends.

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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2010, 10:01:52 pm »

Only if you do so while a TSA employee is frisking and groping your 6year old daughter...
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2010, 10:41:48 pm »

Only if you do so while a TSA employee is frisking and groping your 6year old daughter...

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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2010, 01:17:58 am »

Why do you ask?
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2010, 02:50:04 am »

Making an opening post with just the word "Discuss" does.  You're not just evil, you're also too lazy to make a proper introduction of what you expect to get in response.
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2010, 03:29:55 am »

Why do you ask?

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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2010, 03:35:40 am »

Well, over here in Belgium, we have a tradition of horrible sexual crimes. (Dutroux, Fourniret... There is so many of those pedophile-cum-serial-killer than I cannot remeber all of their names.) So yeah, it is pretty much acceptable to tell pedo jokes.
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Re: The American Question: Does laughing at pedo jokes make you a bad person?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2010, 10:00:21 am »

Aziz Ansari did a stand up special for Comedy Central which included the following routine:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80905072/

I loved this comedy special and this joke was one of my favorite parts. The subject is funny, especially when kind of satirizing our hyper sensitivity to it.

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