Dark Humourous

Dark humour helped me cope through painful times. It is not everyone's cup of tea though. And the thing about it is that it only suits good people. Dark humour takes uncomfortable truths of life and makes you laugh about it, that is, if you have an appetite for it. A lot of good people enjoy dark humour, but it took me some time to realise that there is a vast majority that doesn't enjoy dark humour as a form of humour but as a source of pure schadenfreude and sadism. I'll give you an instance of a dark humourous situation. Imagine that there is this guy who is very pious and law-abiding and he is alone in his life with no women around him, and situations are such that he sees people around him mindlessly indulging in sexual excesses and depravities, and after watching it for quite a long time he decides to keep his morality aside and decides to visit a prostitute for easing his loneliness and sexual frustration. He visits the prostitute and has sex for the first time in his life and contracts HIV. This is an unfortunate dark humourous situation and the humour here is in the absurdity of situation. People who have lived with painful situations, depressed people use dark humour to cope, people with suicidal ideation use dark humour to cope. Dark humour is a good coping mechanism but the problem with it twofold, one, the majority of people misunderstand it, and two, sadistic scum genuinely enjoy the absurd and miserable situations it portrays. I used to enjoy dark humour because I have seen depression and it was kind of a coping mechanism for it, what made me not enjoy it anymore later was the realisation that in our society there is a vast majority of people who genuinely enjoy misery and suffering of others, so much that it gives them sexual pleasure to watch others suffering. You remain in the business of mental health for long and society unfolds itself and when you realise this truth about society, especially of this country, dark humour becomes redundant. I couldn't know the truth of this country and still kept liking dark humour, it would have changed me as a person and into scum that a considerable population of this nation is. Though what I consider fair for dark humour still, is the incompetence of individuals who are in control.