Irony/metaphors/jokes. All ways we live within but break rules. They help us get in touch with our freedom.
Are inappropriate/offensive jokes similar in how they work to normal jokes? Or has something gone wrong?
Cohen: they’re the same. Learning to not say telling offensive jokes is akin to learning to not pinch a stranger or roughhouse with someone who doesn’t want to.
Double infliction: they don’t like it, then you say they don’t have a sense of humor (it’s their fault for not finding it funny)
They don’t need a justification to not find it funny.
No moral theories could account for why it’s not ok for a stranger to say “I don’t like it when you cross your legs” but ok to say “Your music is too loud”. It’s something to be negotiated - you won’t learn it studying moral philosophy. The layperson is equally or more qualified than the philosopher at these practical questions.
No bearing on the functioning of the joke among people who find it funny.
Would need some account of it being harmful, that it perpetuates or creates harmful stereotypes has not been convincingly shown
The fact that a stereotype isn’t true is not a mark against the joke (a joke is always a small fiction)
“Not everything you don’t like is immoral”