crashfrog writes:
So I would find it highly offensive to be expected to sit through this stuff. No one has the right. I would never demand that someone sit through images they considered pornographic; this stuff is just as bad to me. It's like somebody dumping a bag of dog shit in my living room. Dammit, dude, I have to live here.
Of course. I'm not saying that people should be forced to watch graphic material, but I think that as things are right now, with the government only allowing the mildest of footage to be shown by the media, it seems that most people just don't seem to realize that there is horror in the world unless they are shown some of the raw footage.
Personally I would blame the News for this, by making every unimportant story seem earth shattering they are removing our sensitivity to spoken reports of disasters, killings, etc. And making us dependant on videos and pictures to realize the seriousness of a situation
Perhaps a better solution is to try and restore some of the honesty to the "higher ups" because when you have Bush saying that Iraq is in perfect condition but the news showing 3-5 soldiers dying every day you usually have to go to some third party to get real idea about what is going on. If Bush and the rest of the Admin. started talking realistically about the war people would start to wake up from the fantasy land they have been living in and there would be no need for them to see this stuff.
crashfrog writes:
I never watched the video of Nick Berg getting his head cut off. (a guy one watched it close enough to me that I could hear the audio, and that was... I can't even describe it.)
The Nick Berg video isn't nearly as bad as you might think. Some of the other beheadings (like Armstrong and Nepalese) were much much worse than Nick Berg IMO.
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