Interesting Definition of a Crime

[shemthepenman]

Shembala,

There was once a comment made about someone's ex-girlfriend with which the ex-boyfriend disagreed. He in turn made a sentimental plea asking for the offending post to be removed because it would upset her and give her an unfavorable opinion about him. Why should the person who posted the the message in question not respond by saying, "Well people get upset, deal with it. I can't be held responsible for some other person's emotional overreaction; I'm above such sentimentality. I shall keep it posted. To do anything else would be to be untrue to myself and rationality. 

I will of course leave out the part where he became frantic when his post was not responded to immediately. Not to mention that he seemed on the verge of losing his mind. Of course I would assume you would condemn such exaggerated emotionalism and tell the fellow to go jump in the lake; that such sentimental appeals  do not move you. Right? Now that is what I call funny. I guess we just have different taste in humor! No foul no play.


Just a question. Which do you find funnier: a little girl dying of cancer in excruciating pain and being taken from her father, or some forty years old guy brutally raping a church going 13 years old girl making her feel so ashamed because she thinks that somehow she brought it on that she can no longer look her father in the face because she knows how much she will disgust him if he knew?

I'm sure I will find your answer amusing.    

Dale

wow. I am not entirely certain my somewhat lazy critique suggesting your poem is overly sentimental and twee justified such a character assassination, but then again, nor does posting a picture of an ex-girlfriend warrant my over-reaction, and to be fair I think my reaction is pretty funny too, in hindsight. (although, I am also not sure how the two conceptual spaces overlap in any meaningful way. Also, I don't think an emotional response to something is the same as the sentimentality of something.)
But I genuinely did think when I first read it that you were making some sort of parody of that 'type' of poem, which I thought was amusing. And then I realised it was for real, and found that funny, as well. I can't help it that I am a bit of a prick sometimes, it's genetic(:. I at no point found the idea of a child dying of cancer funny. nor a child being raped. Yet, if someone wrote a twee little poem about a 13 year old church going girl being raped, I would conceivably find the poem itself funny. Were the poem specifically about one of my own children (written by someone else), I would hopefully have a different emotional response, but if the poem was shit, it could possibly still be amusing, or would probably just piss me off.