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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6238642" data-attributes="member: 31216">I just started to watch a video called, "Biggest Fails of 2013." The video was posted on a humor site, wo I assumed it would show funny fails.The first fail was a girl lying on a beach, getting a "sexy" photo taken, and then a wave came up and washed her over. She got up out of the water laughing. It made me laugh.The second fail of the video was a snowboarder falling from 15+ feet and hitting a metal railing right in the center of his back. Then he lay on the ground crying out in pain as his two friends ran up to him. It looked like it might have broken his back. That fall possibly could have paralyzed him for the rest of his life. It shocked me.I stopped the video at that point. Holy crap! Why do people think other people's injuries, (even serious/grievous injuries), are funny?Sure, sometimes a minor fall can be funny. AFV has survived 20 years on groin hits. But I saw an interview with the show's host many years ago where it was explained that they don't show anyone getting seriously injured even though they get plenty of such videos.On the Internet, though, there are plenty of supposedly "funny" videos and photos of people getting seriously hurt, and their friends or the Internet commenters laughing at the injury. What is this aspect of humanity that finds pain and suffering hilarious?Bullgrit</blockquote>