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An interesting question in general, not just for children: Is it desirable at all to see videos of graphic violence, even if they are accurate? Does this improv
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
An interesting question in general, not just for children: Is it desirable at all to see videos of graphic violence, even if they are accurate? Does this improve anyone's judgement?
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoWar is entirely different when it goes from "Jimmy heard that bombs were dropped on a hospital" to "here is a hospital where bombs are dropped. Here are the people trying to pull family members and the dead out of the rubble. Here is a cat feasting on the remains of a deceased person because there's no food in the area. Here is a man throwing the body parts of his child into a duffel bag so that he can bury them according to his religious customs." War is a neat little 3 letter word. The brutality that war inflict should be mandatory viewing so that we know what engaging them costs regular people.
- maximus-decimus 3y agoIt's different, but is it beneficial?
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoOf course it is. Everyone should learn how the sausage is made. It makes it far more difficult to brainwash you with jingoism later on.
- maximus-decimus 3y agoI have absolutely no scientific basis for this, so take my take with a giant grain of salt, but I would be afraid it desensitizes people to violence or just traumatizes them, especially if they're kids. There's a reason you don't show the new Evil Dead movie with a zombie using a cheese grates people's eyes to children.
- licebmi__at__ 3y agoPeople, that means the kids parents, are not voting for horrific zombie enabling politicians, but it’s in their hands to stop supporting the war-hawks.
- AirMax98 3y agoAs an example, “The Terror of War” turned many people in America against the Vietnam war.
- krapp 3y agoMaybe the existential horror, disgust and impotent rage building in the zeitgeist of American youth will make music good again.
- veggieburrito 3y agoIt can be something relevant to seek out but wouldn't use the word desirable at all. It may improve judgement but hopefully serves better to improve humility and gratitude.
- goles 3y agoThere definitely has been a level of war voyeurism on social media for the past several conflicts. Gratuitously watching people die, I suspect, won’t really change anyone’s vote, or to volunteer, or donate. At least long term, because the violence usually is the attraction, not the conflict. And there will always be a new conflict. A few key events in history have happened because of, lets say, acute exposure. But chronic exposure, to your point, possibly makes our judgement worse.
- matrix87 3y agoThe benefit is if you show people what war is actually like, people will be more averse to it