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Why do Some people laugh when other people get hurt?

i know its not funny at all but even i, laugh when people get hurt.

like this one girl in my school fell down the stairs once an her books an papers went flying an everyone started laughing [ i laughed too ofcourse ] and then i helped her pick up her shiitt but still if its not funny why do people laughhh?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    idk.. but i find the same thing happens to me.. I dont mean to laugh but i just do.. lol

  • lemoi
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    My pal and that i laughed so demanding one time I were given ill outdoors on the rock porch and spit up pink stuff and then suggested, " Oh, my goodness! i'm lack of life!" Then we both laughed some extra once we realized it grow to be the fruit punch we had purely inebriated. I laughed so demanding that day i could not breathe. I nevertheless do not undergo in concepts what began the finished aspect.

  • 1 decade ago

    i am not real sure but i think that kind of laugh is the sudden realization and relief that we have been spared that embarrassing or unpleasant moment.i also think that it is a way to express to the general population around us that we did not take that action as a serious personal threat and no further action is required, we laugh when others laugh because we want to be included in their joviality.

    Source(s): tmm
  • 1 decade ago

    well it depends on how the person is hurt

    if the person gets hurt in a way that would rele hurt and b painful 4 a long time then the person laffing is an ***!

    if the person who got hurt, hurt themselves in a way where it wouldnt hurt so much 4 so long then it probably was funny. but the hurt person jus got embarussed<[[4got how 2 spell it srry]]lol

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  • 1 decade ago

    i just can't help it. when i break bad news to people i'll smile and giggle [thus them thinking it's not real]. when people get hurt [not badly] i laugh, even if they're crying. but once i broke my friends tooth with a rock [which was so weird] and i kinda smiled, even though i felt really bad. she was crying hystarically .. idk. i just can't help it...

    =P

    but once, there was this kid having a seziure at lunch in school, and the whole cafeteria was upset, alot of the girls at my table actually cried [yeah, ever see an actual seziure? it is depressing] and this one table of guys across from him were laughing they're ***** off. it was so bad ]=

  • it's simply because..

    everyone thinks its funny..

    i might have laugh too..when i saw that..

    but just like what you did..i will help her with her things..

    and to the other people who just kept on laughing..let's just wait for KARMA!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    I guess it's the same as slapstick humour, it's the visual effect.

  • 1 decade ago

    because, that can be called slapstick humor, and people just find unexpected, random accidents funny

  • IDK....mabey it's cuz it brings back memories of when they fell down the stairs.....?

    (MCR4ever!)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    umm coz its something u don't expect and because everyone else laughing makes you laugh

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because its funny to see someone fall over

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