[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Exactly, I could play GTA5 all day and laugh at people flying through windscreens and off motorbikes, but I once accidentally saw LiveLeak footage of a motorbike accident where the guy was OK but his girlfriend who was on the back with no helmet was clearly dead, and I swear it felt like a hot knife in the stomach and the wail he let out still ****ing haunts me.

Someone also showed me a bit of "three guys one hammer" which is less brutal than even a mild horror/slasher film but it's scarred me for life. Horrific. It's just completely different.


Honestly says a lot to me that an awful lot of these "concerned folks" who think movie violence is awful, can look at pictures of drowned kids on the front of a newspaper and say "meh shouldn't have tried to cross, I blame their reckless parents". Jaded old farts trying to lecture others on decreased empathy

...I don’t know if you’ve watched ‘Don’t **** With Cats...’.../Netflix...but it’s something that I’ve just watched within the last few days...and it kind of fits perfectly with this topic..(..it’s also disturbed me a little..)..desensitisation is a strange thing because a group of people were watching someone being brutally killed/horrifically killed ...and some of the reactions, although of shock...were quite worrying also...how the killer had ‘desensitised’ his audience, if you like...how (..although horrified..)...they were becoming distracted with his ‘cat and mouse’ game...and yes, there was horror and upset that this person being brutally slain was a human... but he had just become ‘A human‘...as opposed to ‘A cat’, you know...?...

...even when someone has done some pretty evil stuff in their lives, it repulses me at the thought of watching a ‘public execution’ and taking any type of pleasure or satisfaction in it...and many people have watched beheadings of captives by terrorist groups, that’s something that I also could never do...


...but I can though...(..when I’m in the vibe..)...shoot the bejesus repeatedly out of zombies and the like in a video game...