The Morality of Laughter review

If you tell a joke and nobody laughs, was it still a joke? How sure are you that your answer to that question is right? What is the definition of “joke”? That question broadens out. Does humor necessarily make you laugh? If you laugh, does that mean the object of your laughter is humorous? It doesn’t take long to start thinking of examples of things we call humorous that do not actually induce laughter. Dark humor, for example, may not make you laugh out loud. That doesn’t bother us, we … [Read more...] about Laughing at the World Around You