Originally posted by Robtardthe problem is these are easily manipulated people who dont function in the real world, full of hate and crying out to make their mark somehow... Anyhow.
Back when I used to game online on Xbox, there was no shortage of asperger-y teens and younger guys screaming racism through the microphone with their crackling voices.
Originally posted by AstnerWell I'm not saying you enjoy it I was just sort of countering the idea that seeing it makes it more real and gives you an added understanding... I think in reality it can do the opposite because it is presenting something that a human being would usually only ever see in extreme circumstances with real and present danger involved.
It takes two to tango, and you're not letting this go.Again, I don't have a problem with you not watching it. My problem was your demonization of people who did.
Inquisitive people interested in a crime are looking for two things, evidence and juridical hearings. And people don't enjoy it, that's why it's called "stomaching" because you're holding yourself back from hurling up.
In a way these kinds of videos are lacking the crucial emotional context while still having gruesome images in a sort of distant and sterilized presentation. I think it's almost like how watching porn can do more to distort your perception of sex than it does to educate you about sex (analogy, not saying the two are the same kind of content or watched for similar purposes.)
I will say though I definitely know people who do enjoy it and I don't think they are psychopaths either. There's a voyeuristic sort of appeal to seeing tragedy. Sort of like rubbernecking at an accident on the highway.
In my particular case I was desensitized to a certain extent as the first beheading I ever saw really disturbed me and after seeing enough of them it didn't have the same emotional impact. Basically a case of diminishing returns.
The Hussein video I guess was too far above my sadistic threshold and was ****ed up enough for me to not only not expose myself to it again but also to be uncomfortable with the very idea of me watching that kind of video... Just seems needlessly macabre so I consciously ended it. Had I continued to watch genocide attrocity videos, with enough exposure of course I would become desensitized.
It's like where I work.. at the animal shelter... There's some aspects of that job that can depress you when you first start. After a while you become pretty numb to it cause you're used to it
I notice though you said this interest had something to do with evidence gathering and the like... I don't have any insight on that so that angle didn't even occur to me. If that's your pursuit then I could understand why you watched the video. I would even be interested in hearing what specific insights into the crime watching the video gives you?
New Zealand it appears had lax gun laws.
"The mere fact... that this individual had acquired a gun licence and acquired weapons of that range, then obviously I think people will be seeking change, and I'm committing to that," she told a press conference.
"I can tell you one thing right now - our gun laws will change."
Originally posted by Robtard
Considering your reaction in here was to go “but Islam!”, it worked on you then?
Actually this was my first reaction:
Originally posted by Surtur
Me either. RIP.
But since then, people had opened up to whine about incels, etc so my comment wasn't out of place.
I'd say it worked on all of us. Let's continue to fuel it, shall we?