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Some genuine questions. Can you prove watching the video is mentally damaging? If it is, why is it damaging, yet movies with shootings, explosions and torture

Some genuine questions. Can you prove watching the video is mentally damaging? If it is, why is it damaging, yet movies with shootings, explosions and torture aren't? Can the damage be measured? Is there any grounding in experimental psychology? If you watched the video without having read the news, and someone told you it was fiction, would it still be equally damaging or would that change the effect it has?

robocat 8y ago
Do you think I am ignorant of the arguments for and against violence, for and against its affects on society? Do you think I have personally seen what I believe are positive or negative affects of real and artistic violence? Are you a majority or minority believer? Does my opinion actually matter to you? Why have you asked me these questions?
- repolfx 8y ago
  Your opinion doesn't matter to me per se, but arguments do. I'm interesting in learning how you came to conclude that videos are mentally damaging and what you mean by that exactly, because I don't really believe people can be mentally damaged by watching videos. At least not in any concrete, literal way that a psychologist would recognise. I've heard of PTSD being caused by things like being blown up in a war zone, but from just watching a video? Not familiar with that. Now if by "mentally damaged" you are referring to someone coming to agree with someone else because they listened to their views and arguments then of course videos can influence people, but that's not mental damage. That's just normal evaluation of speech. We may not like the outcome but it's not damage. I don't really understand the other questions you're asking me though. Like, what does majority/minority believer mean?
Ono-Sendai 8y ago
Having seen part of the video, and being from NZ, I can assure it is far more disturbing than any fictional movie I have seen for a while, or perhaps ever.

robocat 8y ago

Do you think I am ignorant of the arguments for and against violence, for and against its affects on society? Do you think I have personally seen what I believe are positive or negative affects of real and artistic violence? Are you a majority or minority believer? Does my opinion actually matter to you? Why have you asked me these questions?

repolfx 8y ago
Your opinion doesn't matter to me per se, but arguments do. I'm interesting in learning how you came to conclude that videos are mentally damaging and what you mean by that exactly, because I don't really believe people can be mentally damaged by watching videos. At least not in any concrete, literal way that a psychologist would recognise. I've heard of PTSD being caused by things like being blown up in a war zone, but from just watching a video? Not familiar with that. Now if by "mentally damaged" you are referring to someone coming to agree with someone else because they listened to their views and arguments then of course videos can influence people, but that's not mental damage. That's just normal evaluation of speech. We may not like the outcome but it's not damage. I don't really understand the other questions you're asking me though. Like, what does majority/minority believer mean?

Ono-Sendai 8y ago

Having seen part of the video, and being from NZ, I can assure it is far more disturbing than any fictional movie I have seen for a while, or perhaps ever.