Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
Normally I'm all for harsh, painful humor (it's the best kind).
However, what these kids did wasn't clever, wasn't subtle, wasn't funny, wasn't imaginative, and wasn't tasteful.
That looks very much like a contradiction.

(Subtlety doesn't really much have to be a part of 'harsh, painful humor', does it? And factually it was slightly imaginative, even reasonably creative, and to them it was tasteful as in taste is entirely subjective. They were also clever in getting attention with it.)

Shame on them.
Looks like some kind of hypocrisy.

I'm sorry, but I'm just saying what it looks like to me. If incorrect, apologies. Personally I would not approve of their conduct, but I wouldn't approve of any other conduct of similar "dark painful nature" in different "supposedly more acceptable" contexts, because they can be very nasty too.