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The warning should be absent. This is the reality of the CCP and could be the direction that pro-censorship and pro-communist nations laud. It’s all fun and and

The warning should be absent. This is the reality of the CCP and could be the direction that pro-censorship and pro-communist nations laud. It’s all fun and and games when popular opinion vilifies the likes of terrorists or pedophiles but it’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know the executions start for DMCA violations and so called hate speech that will radically change in 40y. As george carlin famously said we are all circulating the drain.

sascha_sl 6y ago
Some people, and stay with me here, have different reactions to graphic violence than you. Shocker, I know.
- cryptica 6y ago
  Well these people in particular need to toughen up and face reality so that they know what it means if the government executes someone, that it's not just a data point on a chart. They need to feel it and toughen up. If we become a nation of cowards, then those in power are going to start doing this and nobody will have the courage to stand up to it.
  - sascha_sl 6y ago
    Trauma is a real thing people experience, and having associated triggers is not particularly rare, believe it or not. I'm sorry if some particular political leaning convinced you that's only a thing on tumblr. And I don't see how "standing up" in the US would ever do you any good, with the sheer force of militarized police and actual military. I hope this is not leading into a tired "if only Germany would've had guns" point.
    - cryptica 6y ago
      I don't understand how 'being triggered' is a bad thing... People who 'get triggered' are too sensitive. They have to train themselves. We are on planet earth, we live then we die. This is a fact. Emotions are tools to allow us to navigate our lives as members of society. They are useful, not something we should be shielded from. We need negative emotions just like we need hunger to know we need to eat, thirst to know we need to drink, pain to know we need to avoid physical harm, etc... IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.
      - sascha_sl 6y ago
        Happy to see your peer-reviewed work on this. In the unlikely case you haven't actually done any research, I'll go back to believing the scientific consensus of "retraumatizing does not work beyond phobias". >IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it. What is this even advocacy for? Voting rights only after you sit through a slideshow of graphic violence?
        cryptica 6y ago
        The purpose of these images is not to help individuals to avoid emotional discomfort, it is merely to teach individuals what a term means. In this case, terms like 'state killing' and 'execution' are supposed to create emotional discomfort when read. The association with the horrible imagery needs to be created or else people will not understand what they're reading with the appropriate degree of emphasis when the term comes up in the future. We will be a nation of apathetic, sedated cowards. In the old days, people actually saw these horrors with their own eyes, not merely seen pictures; so they understood very well what 'war' meant. Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.
        CyanBird 6y ago
        > Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long. It is funny reading this after not even been two weeks since the last attack on the US embassy compound in Iraq after the US denied Iraqi calls to remove US troops of the country it invaded 17 years ago
  - CyanBird 6y ago
    > then those in power are going to start doing this I don't know where you have been these last 70 years, but western powers have been "doing this" for a long, long, long time What we really need is to listen to some Angela Davis speeches on what has been going on in the areas that The Media is too cowardly to report
    - chroem- 6y ago
      This comment is extremely disingenuous. The annual number of state sponsored executions in the United States can be counted on one hand. Most (all?) of the EU has banned the death penalty altogether.
- dkdk8283 6y ago
  I want the shock and negative feelings. People need to get their head out of the sand and realize the true cost of your new iPhone 12 and all the other cheap Chinese junk. We shouldn’t be supporting China, we should bring skilled work back to the USA.

sascha_sl 6y ago

Some people, and stay with me here, have different reactions to graphic violence than you. Shocker, I know.

cryptica 6y ago
Well these people in particular need to toughen up and face reality so that they know what it means if the government executes someone, that it's not just a data point on a chart. They need to feel it and toughen up. If we become a nation of cowards, then those in power are going to start doing this and nobody will have the courage to stand up to it.
- sascha_sl 6y ago
  Trauma is a real thing people experience, and having associated triggers is not particularly rare, believe it or not. I'm sorry if some particular political leaning convinced you that's only a thing on tumblr. And I don't see how "standing up" in the US would ever do you any good, with the sheer force of militarized police and actual military. I hope this is not leading into a tired "if only Germany would've had guns" point.
  - cryptica 6y ago
    I don't understand how 'being triggered' is a bad thing... People who 'get triggered' are too sensitive. They have to train themselves. We are on planet earth, we live then we die. This is a fact. Emotions are tools to allow us to navigate our lives as members of society. They are useful, not something we should be shielded from. We need negative emotions just like we need hunger to know we need to eat, thirst to know we need to drink, pain to know we need to avoid physical harm, etc... IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.
    - sascha_sl 6y ago
      Happy to see your peer-reviewed work on this. In the unlikely case you haven't actually done any research, I'll go back to believing the scientific consensus of "retraumatizing does not work beyond phobias". >IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it. What is this even advocacy for? Voting rights only after you sit through a slideshow of graphic violence?
      - cryptica 6y ago
        The purpose of these images is not to help individuals to avoid emotional discomfort, it is merely to teach individuals what a term means. In this case, terms like 'state killing' and 'execution' are supposed to create emotional discomfort when read. The association with the horrible imagery needs to be created or else people will not understand what they're reading with the appropriate degree of emphasis when the term comes up in the future. We will be a nation of apathetic, sedated cowards. In the old days, people actually saw these horrors with their own eyes, not merely seen pictures; so they understood very well what 'war' meant. Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.
        CyanBird 6y ago
        > Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long. It is funny reading this after not even been two weeks since the last attack on the US embassy compound in Iraq after the US denied Iraqi calls to remove US troops of the country it invaded 17 years ago
- CyanBird 6y ago
  > then those in power are going to start doing this I don't know where you have been these last 70 years, but western powers have been "doing this" for a long, long, long time What we really need is to listen to some Angela Davis speeches on what has been going on in the areas that The Media is too cowardly to report
  - chroem- 6y ago
    This comment is extremely disingenuous. The annual number of state sponsored executions in the United States can be counted on one hand. Most (all?) of the EU has banned the death penalty altogether.
dkdk8283 6y ago
I want the shock and negative feelings. People need to get their head out of the sand and realize the true cost of your new iPhone 12 and all the other cheap Chinese junk. We shouldn’t be supporting China, we should bring skilled work back to the USA.