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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick)
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Subject: Re: SD net.jokes blackout
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 13:52:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 13:52:01 1984
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> 1. How many million people live in the SD area? How many of them knew
>    any victims? I mean, why not black out los Angeles too?

LA is > 100 miles away and probably doesn't care. SD is a lot closer of
an area, and many of the jokes will probably hit SD in general.

> 2. If I were killed in such an event, (and were "around" to get people's
>    after reactions) I wouldn't mind people making jokes about it. After
>    all, they're not laughing at me.

It's not the dead who suffer - it's the friends and relatives who have
been deprived of someone close (like when Vido maims yours SO).

> 3. people don't make those jokes because they're insensitive. They make
>    them as a response to helplessness in the face of shock. There's an
>    old saying, "You've either got to laugh or cry".

Be real! Net.jokes is so full of insensitivity it isn't funny. (No pun
intended.)
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