My Latest Moral Quandary

There’s a thin line between being edgy and being an asshole.

Edgy comedy is thought provoking, occasionally cathartic and strangely poetic. It uses disturbing imagery, tragic events or discomforting language to reveal a sometimes-horrific world for what it is but with the saving grace of wit. Assholes are anti-intellectual and use abuse and bullying to revel in life’s cruelties and celebrate the asshole’s supposed superiority.

So which is this:

Can a “pox-infested AIDS quilt at an Indian museum” simply play on the strange coincidence of a folksy memorial to a modern epidemic being the very vehicle of plagues past? Or is it cruelly mocking the lame and vanquished?

Maybe it's how ya tell 'em.