[ SECRET POST #4039 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4039 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[case]

Sure, serial killers and things like that who have done those things in real life exist. This isn't to say that you are one, but that you can sound like one, and that "there's no realistic basis for being alarmed that a random person is joking about this" is untrue.

"I'm gonna launch my GF into the sun with a giant slingshot / stone her to death with tiny pebbles" is physically impossible at every step.

"I'm gonna take a knife to my sleeping GF's chest, how would you feel if this happened to you?" is much more possible in the realm of reality. That's why it's distasteful to people - not because of the breast implants, but because the physical harm there is much more doable. Rationality doesn't have much to do with it - you're right that no rational person would do this! But irrational people exist and are everywhere and you end up sounding like one - even if you're not. I'm sure you also don't think everyone on the internet is a perfectly rational person!

I don't think it's particularly difficult to just avoid joking about harming other people (that you realistically have access to and could harm in those ways).

[thewakokid]

"I'm gonna stone her to death with tiny pebbles" is physically impossible at every step.

Challenge fucking accepted!

I suppose I see where you're coming from, but I still think that's a really un-nuanced line to draw. "If your joke was for real and would harm someone you know in real life if you tried it no matter how absurd the attempt would be, then you can't joke about it in case someone thinks you're serious" is, imo, not a good line to draw and gets rid of a lot of potentially fun shit, but if that's the line you want to make a rule of it is at least a solid line and, hell, it's your gig.

[case]

I didn't want to make a line and would've handled it on a case-by-case basis, excuse the pun - but you asked for one.

There is a realistic clause in there for a reason, anyway. No one, rational or irrational, is going to be able to stone someone to death with one tiny pebble at a time, or launch them successfully into the sun. Chloroform and perform surgery on... yeah, that's been done.