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Look up the definition of liquidate Fasi, then contrast it with the word killing.
Beats me, I'm only commenting on what is. What should be is another discussion altogether.
Another hidden message is: those with whom you don't have a personal relationship do not matter. Bad things only happen to the cameos, not those who become human to us. Essential to the entertainment, terrible social lesson though.
No Fasi, thats where you have it wrong. Violence is the problem the courts and laws try to control. Guns are incidental. Even force is incidental. Inappropriate use of violence is the main game.
We will have to differ on this point Fasi. I snip to improve readability, conserve bandwidth and keep on topic. You regularly insert material and achieve the opposite effect.
Thats one theory. I think it reaches out to a human desire to cut through the bullpoo and just do what needs doing. The audience *knows* the villain is guilty. They are often witnesses to the crime. Due process is irrelevant to them in that situation. Stuff the trial, get on with the punishment!
Its intended to Fasi. After you've had enough of it you can switch moral sensitivity on and off like a tap.
First they give you theory and text. Then they add some pictures, increasingly graphic. Then its video. With sound. Real life snuff movies with real killings. Somewhere along the way they get you to act it out. In an abstract fashion at first, then with increasing realism. You almost never fire on something that isn't person shaped. Eventually you are involved in realistic simulation of deadly force on a daily basis. Moral sensitivity is pretty well overwhelmed by the environment at that point. Some learn to switch it on and off at will. Some can't switch it off and either leave or go crazy. For some it just gets so dull they don't feel it anymore. Another form of mental illness IMO.
Overexposure to loveography or video violence has a similar effect.
While children do become more violent on exposure to simulated violence, they are able to discriminate between fantasy and reality. This ability becomes better the older they get, and with diffrent levels of abstraction.
The police and especially the military always fall back on violence and train in its application. Keep that in mind Fasi. Sometimes poo happens and then, who ya gonna call?...
Point of order. Dave doesn't promote violence but he does recognise it exists.
When someone needs ejecting from the pub, thinking about it won't get it done Fasi.
There are no sinister motives Fasi. Violence is exciting and people pay to be excited. The entertainment industry struggles to accomodate this fact in a society that has its roots in puritanism. Hence we have lots of video violence on TV wrapped in a morality play.
Complex systems aren't usually explained with simple answers. There are far more forces in play than mere morality.
I'm sure I explained that the desensitisation to the killing of the wives took place over a thousand or so years, not merely during the course of the film.
Introduce one of the wives as a human being with a personality, and human wants, needs and feelings however and the audience would have been horrified.
Without writing a book in one article, there is a concept of a cultural artifact. A symbol which represents a complex shared world view. The concept of a wife inseperable as an individual from her husband and glad to die rather than remain after his rest is a cultural artifact we have shared for a long time. Go read some old ballads if you doubt me.
True.
Actually I restrict the things kids in my care view to a level most families would think prudish. The ones I have trained to adulthood seem better for the experience. Those still on the road to adulthood are a work in progress.
But if I employ the marketing concept on ideas you accuse me of spin ;-)
So there are smarter people than me out there. Hardly news.
My methodology is not to allow a child to view video violence until they are capable of appreciating the difference between what is portrayed and reality at the level of abstraction presented.
Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall is too upsetting for some children. Other happily play John Rambo in the yard and know it is only a game. The trick is knowing what is appropriate and when. What really makes the difference if families is caring.
DM personal opinion only
