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well it is an important question because it is written in the bible that"kidders" will share the second death,but this is referring to people who actually don't take life seriously or worse yet make a mockery of the bible,so I'm glad you brought this up,because there is quite a difference between telling a few silly harmless jokes or acting as if you don't take life seriously and actually making hurtful and mocking jokes about anyone or the bible,or not taking your life seriously,it's good to have restraint.
There is also a fine balance that we have to be mindful of at times.
Example; we may be having a laugh about a particular person among us and it could be say.....a funny story about something they did ...( I dunno..say they went to the airport and forgot their passport)...and for a few mins it is just a funny story and we have a laugh and joke.However the person to who the actual stories about starts to feel singled out to be the butt of everyone's jokes now and starts to feel wounded and yo can see them smiling but something's not right.
wisdom and tact are need Here as no one was belittling them deliberately..but it triggered something within them that caused them distress.The whole thing intended as light hearted humour becomes awkward.The wounded person will need reassurance and comfort inorder to be reconciled.Yet as nothing was said that was evil..it would of been more of a reflection of the sensitivity of the individual as sometimes we cannot tell what a person is sensitive too until I'll they become hurt.
Whereas another situation a person could be totally the opposite in their response to it all..they will just enjoy the banter going round and would be totally cool about it all.
So there is a kind of moral responsibility we need to have in regards to the subject of of our humour in this kind of setting.