Mark, I am sorry for mischaracterizing you as a troll, if your intent was actually to foster compassion and generosity around here.
However, just as my "I suspect a troll" post didn't exactly endear me to you, the vituperative tone of your first post was not exactly conducive to fostering compassion and generosity around here.
Personally, I don't find the poem funny. But I don't think that those who do are as bad as the narrator--i.e., shallow and petty and mean-spirited.
Laughter is one of many normal human responses to absurdities like injustice and suffering. Anger is another. People find lots of things funny that I find infuriating. That doesn't mean they're insensitive, cruel people--they just respond to some absurdities in a different way than I do.
I see an important difference between the person startled into laughter by the absurdity of outrageous insensitivity and injustice, and the person who laughs because he or she enjoys others' suffering. I hope you do, too.
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