Would humanity be better or worse off if we never developed a sense of humor and didn't find anything funny?

Would humanity be better or worse off if we never developed a sense of humor and didn't find anything funny?

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>better
>worse
Define these.

developed faster or slower

Check the news, you'll be able to find an answer

Define "development".
Scientific, economic, social?

Define define.

So you are saying Amerindians are better because they developed faster?

Humor is a central pillar of our humanity

Worse imo. The dramas are an important part of human history. You can't have one without the other as they are 2 sides of the same coin.

humor is innate

Damn. You really are desperate. It's fucking sad.

How is your definition of "better/worse" valid, then?

We didnt develop it, we had it you monkey boy.

Are you saying most animals have a sense of humor?

Not most, but a lot of them do. This isn't the best source, but it was the first one I found on Google.

slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/features/2014/the_humor_code/do_animals_have_a_sense_of_humor_new_evidence_suggests_that_all_mammals.html

Worse off. May have died off aeons ago.

Humour is the best medicine for fear. Most of humanoid history was centered on survivalism and primal fear. If it weren't for the aristocracies nipping comedy and humour by calling it an unrefined layman's entertainment and making it a guilty pleasure, it would likely be the primary entertainment.

>In fact, the videos and content with the most views on the internet, and the most interaction, I'd wager, are humourous. The second-most are outrage, and third onward are pertaining to values, ideals, and deep-seated emotions or fantasies.

It would be like today where everyone hates each other and assumes all jokes are personal insults.

Well since humor, threat-trust expectation, and therefore empathy, are what separate us from reptiles, quite a bit worse.
Humor is inextricable from higher human emotion and thought. Without it we wouldn't even be chimps, humans would have the emotional lives of snakes.

isn't comedy a historical allegory of tragedy

In other words humor has developed as a way to cope with the tragedies of our time

>that finger will never be your dick

what is this picture from? those are idf uniforms