I mean, if the general form of your claim is that a joke whose punchline is “your parents wanted you” is in bad taste just as a joke whose punch line is “I’m going to kill you” is, I simply disagree. I find this unlikely, I just mention it because that’s the vast difference between the two examples that jumped out at me.
If the general form of your claim is that a joke that mentions the (unactualizable) possibility of my infanticide is in bad taste just as a joke that mentions the (thus-far-unactualized, but still viable) possibility of my assassination, I also disagree, though I have more sympathy for the claim. I find this more likely.
If it’s something else, I might agree.
Of course, if you don’t actually mean to make a general claim about what is or isn’t in bad taste, but rather to assert somewhat indirectly that references to infanticide upset you and you’d rather not read them, that’s a whole different kettle of fish and my question is meaningless.
Jokes aren’t only about punchlines; here Eliezer was talking about how the (apparently REAL) fact that a murder was contemptated by the guy’s own mother ended up having an upside.
Yes, that’s true, he was indeed talking about that. I infer that your claim is that talking about that is in sufficiently bad taste to be worth calling out. Thanks for clarifying.
Can you generalize your claim a bit?
I mean, if the general form of your claim is that a joke whose punchline is “your parents wanted you” is in bad taste just as a joke whose punch line is “I’m going to kill you” is, I simply disagree. I find this unlikely, I just mention it because that’s the vast difference between the two examples that jumped out at me.
If the general form of your claim is that a joke that mentions the (unactualizable) possibility of my infanticide is in bad taste just as a joke that mentions the (thus-far-unactualized, but still viable) possibility of my assassination, I also disagree, though I have more sympathy for the claim. I find this more likely.
If it’s something else, I might agree.
Of course, if you don’t actually mean to make a general claim about what is or isn’t in bad taste, but rather to assert somewhat indirectly that references to infanticide upset you and you’d rather not read them, that’s a whole different kettle of fish and my question is meaningless.
Jokes aren’t only about punchlines; here Eliezer was talking about how the (apparently REAL) fact that a murder was contemptated by the guy’s own mother ended up having an upside.
Yes, that’s true, he was indeed talking about that.
I infer that your claim is that talking about that is in sufficiently bad taste to be worth calling out.
Thanks for clarifying.