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    11 hours ago

    Its not real so empathy is irrelevant?

    Its not a joke about wordplay because if you take away the dark humour context - the loss, the reaction of the mother - it’s got nothing other than ‘lol a word has two meanings’.

    If the mum was cut out of the last panel - then yep you could pass it off as absurdist humour, but as it is I don’t think thats fair, an easy out - the humour relies on her reaction. I appreciate you engaging as I thought it was an interesting conversation, but most have really taken it to heart it and attacked me for finding a comic distasteful. Counter opinions are very unwelcome here like most comms on Lemmy. My last reply about it but I did want to thank you if but to disagree politely. 👌