Humour

[Wibha]

It just puzzles me how one can laugh when a person hits someone else They call it comedy but I do not find humor in it.

Tom and Jerry pAthurukkeengaLA ?

In nature cats chase rats and there's no verbal abuse.
One guy calls the other one naaye, blah blah blah. The other guy tries to *ACT* innocent and is finally attacked. I just don't get it

[P_R]

In nature cats chase rats and there's no verbal abuse.
One guy calls the other one naaye, blah blah blah. The other guy tries to *ACT* innocent and is finally attacked. I just don't get it

Ok so if I understand right, what you are saying is, it is unnatural for people to be offensive to each other. Humans are by nature favourably disposed towards each other. And the fact that it is contrived for the sake of humour doesn't sit well with you. Right ?

Forget Tom and Jerry. Consider Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Surely there can be nothing 'natural' about a wisecracking talking rabbit making life miserable for lisping simpleton. Do you find Bugs and Elmer unfunny ?

I am ignoring the "there is no verbal abuse part" because I guess, physical abuse is equally bad if not worse in your books. Correct me if I am wrong.

[Shakthiprabha.]

Tom and jerry do not have 6th sense, its guided by impulse for survival. Cat's food is rat.
So chasing and hitting is UNAVOIDABLE.

Aren't we evolved pr?

I would like to stick to physical abuse alone atleast now.

[equanimus]

I would like to stick to physical abuse alone atleast now.

appuRam enna pirachchanai?

[P_R]

Tom and jerry do not have 6th sense, its guided by impulse for survival. Cat's food is rat.
So chasing and hitting is UNAVOIDABLE.

I would like to stick to physical abuse alone atleast now.

This is interesting. You are also making much of tom and jerry being cat and a rat. They are anything but. You can consider the Bugs-Elmer situ. in this regard.

Aren't we evolved pr?

I assume this is a rhetorical question so I am relieved of having to answer this :P

[P_R]

I would like to stick to physical abuse alone atleast now.

appuRam enna pirachchanai?

[Shakthiprabha.]

I would like to stick to physical abuse alone atleast now.

appuRam enna pirachchanai?

[complicateur]

This is interesting. You are also making much of tom and jerry being cat and a rat. They are anything but. You can consider the Bugs-Elmer situ. in this regard.

IthellAm oruththar ALavanthAn-la sollAma sollirukkAru.

[thilak4life]

After many thousand years of Civilization (after million years of evolving), there is so much greed, hatred, and prejudice. Who better than Gounder to make some evocative oppressor acts, sill prevalent in this world. And what genius to pass them off as humour.

[thilak4life]

No Sarcasm intended of course...