Response

I have just read the esteemed blogger at http://kay123myblog.blogspot.com/ comments about bad humour and I have to say that I disagree with them. She brings up the topic of September 11th jokes saying that it is innapropriate even after five years. Laughter is the best way to heal people from trauma and reinforcing the image as sombre and formal will only make the scars harder to recover from.

Obviously this has limits. No images of clowns falling out the Twin Towers would make people friends and a correct period of time should be observed before these jokes are made public but to forbid it would simply mean it becomes more popular as a forbidden activity.

Jokes are made up in the immediate aftermath of any major tragedy as a form of tension relief and will continue until the end of time. To quash it would do more harm than good.