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View submission: Comic: Thesis Defense
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.
Comment by DrunkenPhysicist at 06/08/2014 at 22:01 UTC
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Fair enough. Though I personally know people that were affected by these events. Guess I'm old.