Comment by DrunkenPhysicist on 04/08/2014 at 19:43 UTC*

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I normally like xkcd, but this is in poor taste:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/science/27murd.html?_r=0

EDIT: Downvoted for pointing out that people have actually done this?

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Comment by wote89 at 05/08/2014 at 07:35 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I think the downvotes are less because of "pointing out that people have actually done this" and more that the only example in that link that parallels the comic is older than a lot of redditors. In my experience, for most people to consider a joke in poor taste, it usually has to be about something that occurs with both at least some frequency and an effect that their demographic feels.

So, I don't think the problem is that you're pointing out that it's happened, but that it feels like you're pointing to a genre of events that are clearly outliers and expecting the general population to agree that these events meet a frequency threshold that they do not.