[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Livia

I wasn't implying that you personally get a kick out of it, but I think there are a lot of people who do or this stuff wouldn't be so widely viewed. And yes, Humans are very different to animals. Animals generally don't harm each other for kicks, rape, murder, abuse, ******* each other over for a percentage... I've never known an animal fire a gun or build a bomb, but I realise I'm going off at a tangent there. By comparing it to rape, I was trying to make the point that there is some stuff that is just too disturbing to watch.

I think the difference between watching this stuff on TV as part of a documentary, and watching it online is context. On Youtube I can view just the cruelty, the pain, the terror... on TV I watch it as part of a bigger picture.

Yes , this is a good point ,clips of animal violence on other animals happens everyday it's part of life , we eat animals so we have to kill them as we'll ( albeit humanely in an abbatoir). The distressing scenes in some of the earlier posts in this thread showed just the violence and so this was taken out of context with a longer more detailed programme. So to watch only the violence part suggests this is actually what the YT viewer is seeking.

I think this is where YT reaches it limitations as it shows short video clips of just about anything so it's hard to appreciate the wider context. Bottom line , most normal people do not want to watch these short clips showing just the blood and gore, but I guess there are people out there who do get off on this sort of thing...!!!