Did anyone else get punish for laughing when they were younger?

[demonspade64]

One of the things that I hated as a kid was being punish for something I couldn't control, not just by my school by my mother who by the way is still a great mother. In my Elementary the teachers who tell us to not laugh at peculiar things like a student getting hurt or doing something they should be doing, and half of the time when we can't stop the teacher who use a wood ruler to discipline us by paddling are hand with it, half of the time the teacher would ended up disciplining another student for laughing at the student being punished, this first started in the first grade but thankfully my fourth grade teacher cut my class a break and let us laugh at another student being paddled or acting up as further punishment.

The times when driving around with my mother was especially hard with my old Sister continuously miss-behaving to the point where she get grounded once every week or so, This is also the point where my little brother was about 2-4 and would misbehave or talk back. One time I tried telling her that I couldn't help but laugh,Guess who got grounded that day...not my sister.

[Gwazi Magnum]

Rarely, but it happened.
But never due to flogging (mainly because flogging was never a part of my childhood).

More Explanation based/Neutral response

It's a matter of culture, the individuals thickness of skin, and time appropriateness.

Culture basically meaning what does society see as being funny and not funny? What is ok to laugh at, and what is not ok?
A comedian making a joke about a funny encounter on the way to work? Fine.
People sitting around making rape jokes? Usually not, but you do get people who enjoy dark humor.

Thickness of skin basically being, how much can people tolerate before getting annoyed/angry or offended at the joke?
The more thick ones skin is, the more dark, brutal or personal jokes they are fine with before not liking it.
The more thin ones skin is, the less dark, brutal or personal jokes they are fine with before not liking it. (Note: If someone constantly likes to fall back on the phrase "This/That offends me" you count as someone with thin skin). So normally if someone is punishing you for you laughing, it generally means you've crossed that line of there's. And if this happens often that probably means the person you're dealing with has very thin skin, or you are making very dark jokes and/or laughing at very inappropriate moments.

Time appropriateness is basically the timing. Ever heard the phrase "We'll look back at this later and laugh?".
Normally if something (although funny) happens, the receiving person at the moment may be frantic, stressed, worked up enough etc. by the situation to not find it funny.
But later on, once removed from said situation they may be able to look back as an outsider and laugh at it, since they're no longer having to handle it.

In a (sort of) similliar line of thinking, ever heard of when people look back on something and go "I wish I had done X?", but they hadn't back then because they were too afraid/worried etc?
That are able to look at back and wish they did different, because they are now looking back at it as an outsider. They are no longer feeling the pressures that originally persuaded them not to do X.

Personal Opinion

Now, nothing I said in the early hider was me talking through my teeth.
I just simply stood back and explained the workings observationally.

But personally? Although I find what I listed early to be true, I do agree that it is a pretty moronic/idiotic way for people to behave.
Laughter is a rich, positive feeling that allows people to feel people. It is something to value and enjoy, not censor and punish.

And the vast majority of the time I find people punishing jokes, or being 'Offended' by a joke or laugh. It's people with a stick so far up their ass that they'd rather be negative, and hurt people around them than allow them to enjoy themselves. And a case of people with such poor self-management skills that they expect others to treat them as a special wallflower, rather than simply growing some balls and learning to ignore the jokes and humor they don't like.

In other words, getting offended by jokes and expecting people to stop only shows yourself as being negative and very immature.