Halloween Costume: Too Edgy?

I apologize if this has been discusssed, but, why?

ETA: Just saw the other thread. 

You can dress up with a vest full of red bull and Jager to be a Jager bomb.

MAYBE, just MAYBE, if you put on a pizza delivery uniform including hat, you could be Jessie Eisenberge in 30 minutes or less.

If it was me, I would come up with a different idea.

If you decide to go to any public event/party - I would make sure it looks pretty fake.  I would be uneasy trying to get through security at a Vegas club at Halloween wearing a bomb that looks pretty authentic. 

Honestly, since there has been zero POSITIVE feedback on this thread, it may be an idication of the general attitude people might have if you actually do it.  Seems to me that if MOST people would not think it's funny, maybe it's not the best idea.

A costume is edgy if some people might find it a bit offensive but the majority see the satire. ( #bookofmormomplay ).  But if everyone thinks it's offensive?

I think that's a pretty solid formula. What interests me is getting at the root of what makes that difference. For example, there's a pro poker player whose nickname was the Unabomber because of his hoodie and shades. There are a couple ways a person could dress that would be obvious "Ted Kaczynski." I think that would likely pass this definition of edgy: some offense, but most would see the satire.

I keep coming back to pirates. Disney took all the reality out of what pirates were. (Not just Disney, but they perfected it.) 

When does something that was once serious and intense and truly scary, become an icon so recognizable and therefore innocuous that we'll dress our children in it?

 Really, I have no plans to use it in this way. It just occured to me while out running with it. Which is probably more evidence that the other thread is dead on: that in itself, was a bad idea.

That's it.  and to digress a bit.  So many internet arguements people want "reasons".  Some set line in the sand.  But SO MUCH of it is what someone personally believes is acceptable or not.  Also what a society thinks is acceptable or not.

But someone will always ask "why".  Which is a good question if it get's people to think.  But TO ME, the question "why" can be easily answered "just because".

Some say spanking your kid is ok.  Other say no and ask what the difference between a spaking or a punch in the nose.  It's all violence.  Where's the line?  Well, the line is different for everyone.  But a swat on the bottom doens't FEEL the same as a baseball bat to the face.

So I agree the suicide bomber, in the current enviroment, doesn't "feel" like a good idea and maybe there is no pefect explanation why.

Edgy's cool, but some things can cross the line...AIDS victim, cancer patient, rapist, being the twin towers with an airplane half sticking in ya, etc.  (I'm not equating any of those things with each other, just sayin' they all cross the line.  Since suicide bombers are still goin' at it today, I'd really avoid that one Claaaw.  Good luck.

SILENCE!!!! I KEEEEL YOU!!!

Closest thing we have to a Disney suicide bomber.

Ah yeah, good point. Yeah, and I am not a big fan of that guy. (As an even further aside, he was scheduled to appear at the Bloomsburg Fair, the biggest fair in PA, a couple years ago, and it rained out. Then last year he was to come back, and we had a major devastating flood right there. He's back, tonight. I'm an hour away, but I still may build an ark.)

Truth is, I'm not the guy who pushes the envelope in a public setting, but I often wonder about finding the line of what it is anyway. Like Kido says, that's usually a fruitless endeavor, hard to quantify. But I had to laugh at the idea that a baseball bat FEELS different than a spanking. Well yeah, on sooooo many levels. 

I wonder if you were seen by the 1% that they would point out that your shoes did not cost thousands of dollars...

Who knows, maybe they do, but I can't tell the difference.