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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Coldneck" data-cid="345008" data-time="1557949122">
 

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="VanSlawAndCottoCheese" data-cid="345000" data-time="1557939949">
Intent only matters so much. Your intentions my have been to go grocery shopping, but if you ran over my uncle on the way, I'm not going to laugh it off.

 

What if your uncle molested you as a child?</blockquote>
 

 

Touché, literally.</blockquote>
This is a good example of what I'm talking about when it comes to comedy (as opposed to manslaughter). Is molestation funny? No, but because you understand that Coldneck's intent is not mean spirited, you've responded with a molestation joke. Someone could easily get angry at your joke, or be offended by it. But you weren't trying to be mean spirited either, but rather clever.
Your intent absolutely matters, you just illustrated that.
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That's very kind.

 

Intent matters, but, again, only to an extent. I made the joke under the comfort of anonymity and to a fairly small group where such humor has been shown to be accepted as part of the discourse. Even so, if someone here were to say that in fact such jokes are hurtful to them, I would have to reconsider making a similar joke in the future.