Recently on DIGG.com, a news story regarding a horrific beheading on a grayhound bus en route through Canada was submitted and quickly gained a lot of attention. The story is gruesome and I was sick to my stomach for hours. With something being so horrific and commited by a mentally psychotic individual, I would have thought people would be sympathetic to the victim and his family. The story itself is disturbing, and I found myself questioning what is wrong with humanity? But just when I thought it couldn't be any worse, the DIGG community made appalling comments with reused uncreative puns.
I don't take myself too seriously. I don't take a lot of things in life too serious either. I laugh about everything, because it's therapeutic. But this isn't one of them. I don't find the jokes and puns amusing by any means. An innocent young man was sleeping on the bus when he was stabbed 50-60 times and beheaded with a hunting knife. This innocent victim was on the bus to visit his family. He had a family. But that doesn't matter to the insensitive dolts on DIGG. I can assure you, they wouldn't be laughing it up if it was a family member of their own.
I made my own comments about this being no laughing matter. Why the hell I wasted my time and energy trying to make a statement to complete idiots, I have no idea. But I was accused of being uptight. I think that's the first time I have ever been labeled uptight in a setting like this. Perhaps I really was uptight. I probably still am. But don't I have a reason to be? Should I feel guilty because I am showing compassion?
Compassion. What a funny word. I don't think our species understands the meaning anymore. Maybe people are so desensitized in our society, these things don't phase them. Maybe humor is just a therapeutic way of dealing with something awful.
Regardless, i'm not laughing.
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