My ability to empathise is not one bit damaged by my ability to sit back, detach, and be amused, and then come back to self. I think the Holocaust is an awful awful thing and its (continued) victims have all my sympathy and support, but I'm fucked in the head and can laugh at anything. I will probably be making jokes at my parents' funerals (*thumping on wood*), put it that way.

I asked the question as to whether people would want me to stop finding it funny because I can make my amusement at it go away. I don't think I will, because I don't see the point, but I wanted to know what other people would say. I didn't mean censor in the conventional sense of hiding it so as not to offend public decency; I meant it more in the sense of treat it like thoughtcrime, in their own heads. Note the emphasis.

However, my trust that people are who they present themselves as and are not just covering their inner loathsomeness with a bit of civility has been damaged forever.

Mm. Most everybody pretends, in some way, shape, or form. All that differs is what they're hiding.