desensitization: the net, reality, and violence.

[Voicedrew]

Somebody mentioned vidiii a couple of days ago, which lead to me clicking on the recording of the Buffalo mass shooting. I thought that it was "surely bait", but I was wrong. I didn't watch the full thing, I skipped to a part near the end and looked away just in time to miss the shooter executing someone he had previously incapacitated at point-blank range. He was also wearing a facemask (from the covid times).

To avoid seeing the execution, I quickly scrolled down to the comments, only to find a terribly sick individual saying something along the lines of "And they told him his facemask would protect him". The video was distressing, but honestly the comments were equally if not more disturbing. It's kind of absurd how, what once would have been the worst thing the previous generations had to witness, can now be seen from the comfort of home.

 

[R_Savarin]

Excuse me do you think that gore should be posted in a classroom? If so why?

I'm really hoping he just means stuff like dissecting frogs

 

[Dr. MacGutsy]

Excuse me do you think that gore should be posted in a classroom? If so why?

From a medical standpoint. You gotta know what you're looking at. Also drivers ed and all that.

 

[Yabba]

From a medical standpoint. You gotta know what you're looking at. Also drivers ed and all that.

That's true

 

[alix]

I have heard stories about kids in my town watching your usual gore IN SCHOOL and getting caught. I just can't comprehend it. The goriest thing I have ever seen was an image of some dead children after a bombing, with blood (RIP), and I saw only a flash of it, no more. It still got in my head, and when I think about it, it just makes me sad and disgusted. So hearing about kids watching executions for fun (I think they purposefully searched it, don't know if for fun or morbid curiosity that ends wrong) feels otherworldly to me. What's even worse is the fact that it's inside a school. If you decided to watch something like, for example, combat footage, inside your home, it could be possible that you just had morbid curiosity, and most important of all, that you know that watching it is "wrong" (in the sense that it's something that should not be treated like normal fun). But watching it inside a school with your friends means that you think it's normal. The ones who do this see it as normal as watching something funny or weird with your friends. And when it's kids who do this, it's even worse.

 

[Some_porcupine]

I have heard stories about kids in my town watching your usual gore IN SCHOOL and getting caught. I just can't comprehend it. The goriest thing I have ever seen was an image of some dead children after a bombing, with blood (RIP), and I saw only a flash of it, no more. It still got in my head, and when I think about it, it just makes me sad and disgusted. So hearing about kids watching executions for fun (I think they purposefully searched it, don't know if for fun or morbid curiosity that ends wrong) feels otherworldly to me. What's even worse is the fact that it's inside a school. If you decided to watch something like, for example, combat footage, inside your home, it could be possible that you just had morbid curiosity, and most important of all, that you know that watching it is "wrong" (in the sense that it's something that should not be treated like normal fun). But watching it inside a school with your friends means that you think it's normal. The ones who do this see it as normal as watching something funny or weird with your friends. And when it's kids who do this, it's even worse.

classic, ED times too... classmates will show you shit and gore for fun (but that is more of 90s-00(10)s culture, "rite of passage" of sorts...)