4 ms·
Sounds more like child-abuse to me. If the video is indeed as shocking as most people here claim it is then it isn't age-appropriate for younger adults and espe
by zo1 10y ago
Sounds more like child-abuse to me. If the video is indeed as shocking as most people here claim it is then it isn't age-appropriate for younger adults and especially children.
As adults, we can choose to not see it. As children, in a classroom, we are generally not. Peer pressure and adult authoritarian rule should not be taken lightly. Especially when used to scare children into compliance and leave them lasting marks into adult-hood.
-Speaking as someone that still has irrational issues with being alone, or being alone in the dark. After watching age-inappropriate movies as a child.
- ipnon 10y agoYou know what's real child abuse? Entirely preventable nuclear wars that are only initiated due to ignorance of their effects.
- zo1 10y agoNo, that's called not raising your kids to be good citizens.
- DanBC 10y ago> Sounds more like child-abuse to me. If the video is indeed as shocking as most people here claim it is then it isn't age-appropriate for younger adults and especially children. You'd be amazed at the kinds of films that were shown to young people in an effort tochange their behaviour (with no evidence that it would actually do so). My favourite example was of a UK tv show Nationwide that got a studio full of young people to watch US style shock films about road and rail safety. The films were so gruesome they couldn't be shown on broadcast tv at that time of the evening. There were shots of young people throwing up and feinting and having to be taken out of the studio, weeping. (This is mentioned on a TV discussion forum somewhere, but I can't find it. :-/)
- DKnoll 10y agoI can only imagine how coddled your childhood was if you weren't aware of the dark realities of death and war by 15 or 16. Fear is a choice. Also many people have overcome much greater trauma than 'age-inappropriate movies'... that's absurd.
- jon-wood 10y agoI should probably clarify that the teacher in question hated the film, and spent the entire lesson pointedly not watching it. Some of the other students in my class had heard of it from another teacher and were determined to see it. I'm pretty sure while it could be considered mildly negligent to give into that pressure, I'm also confident it doesn't constitute child abuse. At least some of us were old almost enough to enlist with the army, I think its good to balance that out with an idea of just what that might entail.