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The Benign Violations Theory

The Benign Violations Theory

It says that humor comes from a few necessary conditions:

  1. There needs to be a norm violation (moral norm, a social norm, or a physical norm).
  2. There needs to be a safe context where the violation takes place. That gives us permission to laugh.

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