BloodHenge wrote:
Which was, from a certain perspective, mildly humorous the first time. But not when it became obvious that he found it upsetting that his opinion was being so frivolously discounted. Or, at least, the only way it was still funny would be if you have no empathy for fellow human beings.
I think, given the ridiculous nature of the question at hand, flatly contradicting a calm and sensible answer like Killjoy's is pretty obviously humor, and not actually intended to discount his opinion.
Imagine if someone asked "do girls really go to the bathroom together just so that they can have hot lesbian orgies to help ease their sexual frustrations, and thus better resist giving in to the temptation of ravishing the dashing but perverted men they're out with, thus maintaining their upper hand at the sexual bargaining table?" And some girl responds "of course not, that's ridiculous, we go to the bathroom together for [some good, perfectly mundane reason]". And someone else misquotes that to says "yes" (in a fixed textual medium like this, where the person's actual words are available for anyone else to read nearby). Funny, right? "Ha ha, some girl admits that all those crazy improbably fantastic rumors about them are true! How unexpected is that?" Same thing here.
I think Killjoy just lives up to his name. And I'm beginning to wonder if it's not some sort of dry humor in and of itself. In real life I'm fond of replying to obviously joking comments with dry academic exposition on the merits of the comment (wow, the irony here is delicious), prompting my friends to say "dude, I was just joking", with which I reply dryly "so am I". Usually gets a couple of laughs. I wonder if Killjoy's not doing the same thing here?