Many years ago one of the insurance company (I believe it was Kemper IIRC) published a series of glossy books with pictures from some of their covered claims. There was one designed for churches (many, many churches are uninsured under the old will of GOD concept) which showed churches that had burned down. Another showed first responder pictures from auto accidents including very graphic pictures of the victims. In it the only concession to modesty or pivacy was the ubiquitous black bar over eyes or license plates. I thought they were a great idea and tried to get them distributed to every church and each school.
I got almost no feedback anywhere initially. Then one day I got a call from one of the principals at a local school. One of the kids had been killed in a car accident. The principal told me that after looking through the booklet he had decided they were way too graphic to give to the kids and frankly, thrown them away. But after the tragic accident he had been haunted by the question of whether seeing just how bad accidents really are might have influenced the outcome. He asked if I could get another set of the books and maybe even a speaker to talk about the horror of car accidents in reality.
So I think this is a vaid and important thread.
Should we expose youngsters to the actual, real carnage that violence does? Should youngsters be exposed to the real results of violence instead of the cleaned up images presented in tv, movies and video games?
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