Originally posted by: TekDemon
Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: Number1
This video is just sickenning. People and animal geting shot. You wouls normaly find this kind of stuff on ogrish.
Truly sickening.
BAN.
Yeah, let?s hide from reality. People like you living sheltered lives shouldn't be allowed to vote. Idealism is the biggest threat to this country.
It's not sick. It's life. People are made of soft squishy stuff and we die often no matter how hard we strive to prevent it. Deal with it.
Or continue living a sheltered life and holding hands and watching Barney and chanting ?everybody is special, everybody is equal, everybody is the same, and everyone lives forever? and be prepared to be disappointed for the rest of your life.
Well, to be fair, if you keep watching super gruesome stuff and you're never even given the chance to believe that it's possible for a world to exist where everyone is equal then you'd probably live a pretty crappy life too. I mean, you gotta believe that the world can be made better somehow, no?
No, my life isn't crappy at all. Far from it. You can believe all you want, and you can aspire all you want, but in the end, the only thing you can do to change the world is what you yourself do. You can't believe that the world will magically be a better place because you think it should be.
As for equality, that will never happen unless we can create matter out of thin air. Basic economics dictates that there will never be enough resources to make everybody happy all the time. Failing to understand that and live with it is the first downfall.
Anyways, you don't want to become desensitized to violence-yes it happens, but that doesn't mean we should always look at it. That's like arguing that people get raped, so we should go watch security camera videos of people being raped. Obviously I don't think you'd argue for that, so don't go flipping out on someone who doesn't like watching a video of a dog and a man being shot to death.
I wouldn't say watch that kind of thing over and over. Even being desensitized I don't find entertainment in it. It isn't happy, or sad, it's just is, and I accept it however unfortunate. I err on the side of being wishful that it didn't need to happen, but it did, and that's that. But for some people, its their first glance of reality and can be good for them to experience, even if disturbing.
I don't agree with the "BAN" comment, but your whole thing about how we shouldn't be idealistic (and thus not have any ideals?) because the world has sucky stuff happening in it is also crap. Seriously, knowing that crappy stuff happens in this world is one thing, but that doesn't mean we should submerge ourselves in videos of murders and rapes either-being sickened by such things just shows that we're still human and still have our moral sensibilities.
Ideals are nice, but the realization that not everybody shares you ideal is a start. Some people don't believe in your ideals any more than you believe in someones ideals who feel its appropriate to stuff bombs in their kid's back packs. And short of immediate action as it happens, there is nothing you or I can do to change that persons ideals or actions. You can talk, you can convince, you can encourage, and do whatever you can to stop it. But are you prepared to pull the trigger to save lives should your pleas and reason fall on deaf hearts? Will you be the one to weigh the cost vs. benefits of lives saved vs. lives taken, and if not, do you obstruct those who can? It's not fun. Badgering and guilting the people that do it doesn't make it any easier. Different people and cultures believe different things. You can only do your part. You can't make anyone else do anything.
You cross the line when you enforce your ideals on others via politics and law when they don't apply to everyone. For example, there are people who don't believe we should be allowed to defend ourselves, and would seek legislation to bar us from doing so. The ideal is the belief that the world can be happy and if all the guns go away, there will be no more violence. That would be great if it that was the case, but we know it is an ideal, and effots to enforce that ideal will not produce positive results, especially for the good, righteous, and law abiding.
Again I didn't say submerge yourself in this kind of footage. But the opposite is also true, we shouldn't be so desensitized from life itself to go so far as to censor it completely and pretend this doesn't exist. This is why our country is quickly becoming a nation of cry babies who gasp and puke when a bird dies, much less serious events. That is what irks me the most.
It has nothing to do with morals, you can have morals and still objectively be exposed to these things. Just watching a video or even being their yourself and not wanting to harf does not make you a serial killer with no remorse. It makes you someone in touch with reality.
I don't expect everybody to be able to stomach it or we'd have everyone walking around wearing tridents. But its good for some people to puke or smell raw flesh now and then if they think the rest of the world outside their white picket fence is all sharing and caring.
And I don't mean that in a religious sense (Athiest here).
If you've gotten to the point where it no longer bothers you to see a video of actual people/animals dying violently, then there is something wrong with you.
I assure you there is nothing wrong with me; no more so than there is with a doctor who can look at *anything* purely from a clinical perspective and not really be moved. I didn't hit that crack rock. I didn't threaten police. I find no pleasure in bombing a cafes of innocents or crashing planes into civilian buildings. Nor will I. But I can be exposed to these things and the least reaction you will get from me is a shake of the head, and the most, a call to arms to take care of business. Not because I want revenge, not because I'm angry, not because I'm scared, but because I just do what I need to do when I need to do it, and I don't mull over it afterward. It's that simple.
Your way of thinking is admirable, but unfortuneately there are people in the world that simply do not care.