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This is my response to Grace's lead blog. First of all, I agree with the points that Grace makes in her blog. The setting definitely resembles an insane asylum, and the voice of the guy in the video adds a sort of bizarre, almost insane, quality to the video. In watching the video, I found myself very conflicted as to what I was feeling. On the one hand, if the person in the video is acting or trying to be funny, then I would find it hilarious. On the other hand, if the person was seriously suffering from sort of mental illness which drink those things, I would not find it funny at all(which is very usual for me since I love dark humor.) So, for me, it was like watching a play where someone gets killed. As long as it is actually a play and not real, I am perfectly happy to enjoy the play. However, if I suspect that someone is actually being killed, the emotional response will be completely different. Nevertheless, I do believe that can see the relief theory pretty clearly at w...