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Eneasz comments on Is it "bad" to make fun of people/laugh at their weaknesses? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: InquilineKea 29 December 2010 03:52AM

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Comment author: Eneasz 29 December 2010 07:19:56PM 3 points [-]

It matters a lot WHO you are attacking. If you are mocking someone in a position of power, who can compensate for their weakness or eliminate it then you aren't doing them much harm. The jester mocks the king, the sadist mocks the peons. Making fun of the weakness of (for example) these folks is simply cruel.