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Yes. Lighten up; you'll live longer.I, personally, am of the opinion that it is totally unethical. It is effectively indoctrination wearing a smiling mask. No matter whether you're left wing or right wing, you can agree that the humor itself is rather secondary in nature to the actual pushing of a way of thought or an agenda. Am I alone in this belief?
But it is not genuine in its efforts to amuse, it is only genuine in its efforts to mold people. It is a tool of control that is dishonest.
I heartily agree. I think it's definitely unethical to use something that is meant to be lighthearted as a tool for more sinister motives.1) There's nothing funny about politics, at least not this election.
(see harmless political humor)
2) it's unethical when it slanders and intends to do so in propaganda or manipulative way.
Ethical humor would be harmless humor like the very last post on my thread title
"Would women still flock to churches if Jesus looked like Danny DeVito"
In it is a harmless comparison to a Jesus Iconograph, it does not slander or manipulate Trump, it just points out a noticable trsit that 8s noticable in the iconograph which makes it harmlessly funny. He himself would laugh at it, so that is my take on the difference between ethical and unethical political humor.
-signed lessons on Jewish Humor 101.
I, personally, am of the opinion that it is totally unethical. It is effectively indoctrination wearing a smiling mask. No matter whether you're left wing or right wing, you can agree that the humor itself is rather secondary in nature to the actual pushing of a way of thought or an agenda. Am I alone in this belief?
Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
Politcal humor isn't unethical. Lampooning our alleged political betters is a time honored tradition in this nation.
Questioning requires effort. Most can't even be bothered to get up and change the channel.Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
So you actually think minds are passive sponges that simply accept whatever they're told without question?
Weird.
Free speech is free, not inherently ethical. You may have a right to it, but that doesn't mean it's right or wrong.Politcal humor isn't unethical. Lampooning our alleged political betters is a time honored tradition in this nation.
--- And everywhere that Free Speech lives.
Questioning requires effort. Most can't even be bothered to get up and change the channel.Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
So you actually think minds are passive sponges that simply accept whatever they're told without question?
Weird.
Whose fault is that doesn't scare me as much as whose problem it is.Questioning requires effort. Most can't even be bothered to get up and change the channel.Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
So you actually think minds are passive sponges that simply accept whatever they're told without question?
Weird.
To the extent that that's true ---- and we see the same syndrome in, say, this board ----- WHOSE fault is that?
Free speech is free, not inherently ethical. You may have a right to it, but that doesn't mean it's right or wrong.Politcal humor isn't unethical. Lampooning our alleged political betters is a time honored tradition in this nation.
--- And everywhere that Free Speech lives.
Whose fault is that doesn't scare me as much as whose problem it is.Questioning requires effort. Most can't even be bothered to get up and change the channel.Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
So you actually think minds are passive sponges that simply accept whatever they're told without question?
Weird.
To the extent that that's true ---- and we see the same syndrome in, say, this board ----- WHOSE fault is that?
Questioning requires effort. Most can't even be bothered to get up and change the channel.Well take that British guy. You know, glasses, snaggleteeth, I can't really remember his name. But his whole show, while perhaps humorous, is in the purest sense of the word biased and dedicated to winning over people to one side of the political spectrum. The average person, being unable to see through or even consider the possibility of propaganda or lies being shown on television to persuade them, would be totally defenseless against this kind of molding.
So you actually think minds are passive sponges that simply accept whatever they're told without question?
Weird.
