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I see that respect for people who don't understand things is at an all-time low, and they can't resist making fun of a person who feels like he's losing his family. Even Twilight does it.
And... I'll just say this about the whole "losing sentience" thing: I am still not happy with it.
Unless you want to know more about either of those, I'm gonna leave it there, though.
7062028 Um... I fail to see where Twilight does that unless you are referring to the brainwash comment.
It not out of the realm of DWH to make the comments he does...the poison joke incident the winter wrapup outhouse bird nest comment. And lets be frank DWH and Magic Dowser have been butting heads for quite sometime now...
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It's more like "Twilight was cool with making fun of Dowser, didn't try to help him or stop Heart, and laughed at Dowser just like Heart was."
This is the worst of it:
This is Heart making fun of Dowser for feeling bad for his part in making sister neurotic. Taking it not seriously at all and just making witty quips instead. The whole chapter is this, but this is just the most egregious.
It's like you're trying to combine a genuine emotional breakdown on Dowser's part with trying to make it "lighter" by inserting some jokes... by making it so that nobody displays any respect for Dowser in the least bit.
7062131 Neurosis is countered by humor, taking a Neurotic psychopath or Sociopath seriously can cause many problems. Such as Arranged marriage, Isis, and Hitler. If you burn insanity with humor it never has the chance to grow and blossom.
7062131 At no time did twilight laugh at magic dowser during this chapter except at the absurd brainwashing comment that came from Magic Dowser...
I'm going to need to make some adjustments to the next chapter... rest assured Ruby will not be too happy with him.
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And when, in any of those movements/peoples "lives", did a lack of humor definitely cause them?
Not to mention that manipulative sociopaths use mockery as a weapon all the time. Just make your opponent look like they're insane! Just say they're stupid and emotional, and their emotions don't matter!
I mean... it's not hard at all to imagine humor being used to support those causes, instead of dismantling them.
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Yeah. I see that now that you're pointing it out. But that's basically the only interaction Twilight has with him, and because it's the same reaction as Heart has, it looked like a flat extension and support of treating Dowser as "deserves no respect, because he's so irrational and dumb."
Edit: Out another complaint about the fact that Ruby loses half of her mental/spiritual half and all the people in the know treat it as if that's just okay.
7062259 you got to remember for them they have been around DFW for sometime... also they are dealing with a 'Garble' putting a wrench into the works and messing up the plans they had to take a bit more time in introducing them to the ways of dragons...
Is Magic Dowser being dumb? no... irrational? yes... is that understandable considering the circumstances yes.
Are the dragons explaining everything in a way that's helping? not really but it does go back to the above point of damage control... things are moving way too fast for them to keep up.
7062247 People Took Hitlers rantings seriously and upon listening, followed him fanatically, Isis makes many of it's followers from the learned and devout Muslims who follow the teachings of the Quran fully, they would not be so entrenched in the middleast if the Muzlims instead laughed them off and shot them on sight like the rabid dogs they are. Arranged marriages are made solely to improve both bloodlines and fortunes of the families involved, Never reaching for the True feelings of the individuals involved, With humor the parents could easily instead care about their children and their feelings instead of ignoring them for greed.
Humor is a weapon, and the reason the Sociopathic dictators use it on their opponents is because it is the most prominent way to dismantle any support their cause could have gained. Making them a martyr doesn't work, and locking them away only silences them, but not the followers they've already gained.
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Humor is a tool. It can be used as a weapon or as an... opposite of a weapon? It is not inherently good or evil. You seem to know all of this, and even the three examples you give were three completely different uses of "humor" and "taking people seriously or not seriously." The first one was "don't take Hitler seriously" the second "contemptuously laugh at ISIS then shoot them", and both were united by a ridicule of the people holding the viewpoints you don't like, and the third was "use humor the opposite way you do in the first two, and instead of mocking their children's or their parents' feelings try to be compassionate with them, maybe including humor."
So let's bring it back to the story: I am saying that treating Dowser as if he is deserving of ridicule will be counterproductive, in the long run. That it is closer to (but not at the level) the contemptuous versions of laughter, where ultimately it's just used so someone else will not take them seriously, which, if run unchecked, will run Dowser further away from understanding things, rather than closer, given that he is not an inherently insane or unreasonable person.
(That being said, while this chapter is a bad example, it doesn't look like it will be unchecked for very much longer.)
Ultimately, also, the whole thing where Dowser is making fun of himself at the end seems really out of place. Like... what was the intended mood of this chapter? How the readers were intended to react? I can't figure it out. It is like it's supposed to be a tense confrontation... but that's undermined by how Twilight and Heart react to Dowser's reactions.
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it was less making fun of himself but bemoaning what he knew Ruby would do... as Ruby's been know to tease Magic's love life
7062365 in this case their most likely trying to use humor to bring Dowser back to reality and break him off his psychotic high.
In the end another victim brainwashed. XD