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Laughing at the Wrong Time
In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Comic Relief. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 90–110 (2009-09-04)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Eight Traditional Moral Objections The Shortcomings in the Contemporary Ethics of Humor A More Comprehensive Approach: The Ethics of Disengagement First Harmful Effect: Irresponsibility Second Harmful Effect: Blocking Compassion Third Harmful Effect: Promoting Prejudice.
laughing at the wrong time as negative ethics of humor vices and virtues associated with humor consequentialist ethics and virtue ethics ‐ seeing virtues as intrinsically valuable eight traditional moral objections linking humor with morally objectionable effects, as violence and sexual promiscuity Humor is insincere ‐ non‐bona‐fide communication and action in humor Humor is irresponsible ‐ disengaging from what we are doing or failing to do Humor is hedonistic ‐ humor and other forms of play pursued for pleasure ethics of disengagement general ethical principle along lines of ‐ “Don't play with fire”
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