It certainly seems to be working in Driver Ed with videos like "Red Asphalt" showing kids the real life consequences of being drunk and crashing at the wheel.
Just as a side note, does anyone else find things like this video very insulting? As though I'm not smart enough to think ahead an imagine consequences of risky behaviors? I realize that some may not be, of course.
My mind is a place where I have to live, though, and that means I'm judicious about what goes into it. Which may seem funny, if you know I like to watch movies like
Kill Bill, but I understand the difference between fantasy and reality. In fact I depend on it.
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.) I try not to look at pictures of dead bodies unless they're still in one piece. The clinical atmosphere of medical illustration is fine, but I try to keep images of real bodily trauma out of my mind.
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.
Just my thoughts on the issue. Do we have a right to choose what images we're exposed to? I hope we do.
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