Michael Jackson RIP

1. jokes about child abuse/rape/sexual violence are absolutely, unquestionably wrong and its lamentable that anyone would think otherwise. imagine if you, your brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend or your own child had been abused or raped by someone, i doubt you'd be making jokes about it. it will never ever be funny. the effects dont just go away after a few days, they stay with you forever and im amazed and saddened that there are so many people that think jokes about those subjects are fine to make.
   
   

Making a joke about something is not the same as condoning it.

I can think of plenty of jokes that involve death, eg the "aeroplane going down / limited number of parachutes" genre.

1) They're not considered particularly risque, because jokes about death are common.

2) Finding one of those jokes funny /= finding the recent Air France crash funny. It goes without saying that you'd expect the effects of that to stay with the families of the deceased for a long time, too.

I'm not saying that you should find the paedo jokes on this thread funny, though. Most of them have been shit.