• DillyDaily@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The only prison rape jokes I’ve heard in the last 10 years are about paedophiles “getting what they deserve in prison”

    Which I didn’t really think was a funny haha joke, just a “I don’t know how to respond or fathom paedophilia, it’s deeply uncomfortable and unsettling…haha”

    I also personally don’t know how I feel about those kinds of jokes.

    The rule in comedy is never punch down, but hopefully that’s where you’ve got to aim if you’re targeting a convicted child molester, I don’t think I’m better than anyone, I believe all human life has equal inherent value…but I also think I’m better than a child molester and that given control of a runaway trolley, their life has less value.

    That sure is some cognitive dissonance, so cracking a joke at the expense of a paedophile in prison is easier than confronting my own opinions towards the value of human life.