Mayor West
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Damocles said:When I was younger and trying to download porn from iMesh, I came across a 500kb video. Thinking that it was a 10 second "looper" video, I started the download (I had dial-up then, you kids don't know that you're born with your high-def 2 hour long porn!) with glee.
Turns out that it was a blonde woman tied up in a chair, begging and crying, with the cam a couple of feet in front of her, facing her. I know this sounds daft, but I didn't really have time to think about anything, and before I knew it, a gun creepily appeared from the right and shot her in the temple. This was pretty much the first dodgy thing that I saw, and I admit that it affected my younger self quite badly. I went from shock to anger to disgust, to self loathing, fear and finally determination.
Later, I loosely heard that it might have been a fake video (though it was a bloody good one if it was). It matters not a jot to me. It's not about the realness of it, it's about the systematic brutality that we can submit each other to when we forget our common morality.
I decided never to watch any of these things again. I'm not desensitised to extreme violence and I don't want to be. Desensitivity takes away a fundamental part of your humanity, which is too high of a cost for me. I don't care about the macho tough bullshit you hear, I don't WANT to know just what it is like to see 3 youths smash a guy's skull in with a hammer. Yes, curiosity can be a wonderful thing, but there are limits to it. Curiosity about why leaves are green is fantastic; curiosity about what it is like to jump off of a cliff isn't.
Every single loss of life is a tragedy, whether through violent or natural means. I believe that the first couple of these videos that you watch teach you the true value of human life and shows you the basest desires of our species, as a warning to why we value love so highly. More than a couple of these starts to devalue the lives of humans, into a strange form of entertainment.
It's not something that I particularly want to be a part of.
Damocles, that post is absolutely bang on on all fronts.<br /><br />-- Fri May 20, 2011 8:08 pm --<br /><br />
quiet_riot said:Godfather said:sickboyblue said:One that really shocked me was a football match in (i think) UAE.. Player goes for a header and get a boot on the chin. What happens next is properly horrible.
What happens? I'm not watching it to find out!
It's some 'Angel of Death' thing, he goes mad and starts dancing and having a fit...weird rather than sick or scary.
Oh, is that it? How is that 'properly horrible' though??