Originally posted by Zone-MR+May 13 2004, 04:35 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Zone-MR @ May 13 2004, 04:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-"wase4711"
The whole affair is sickening, and now, courtesy of our wonderful "information age", 10-15 year old kids get to see a beheading on the Internet..
I'm not sure if that's the way you implied it, but surely it's a good thing, isn't it? Our society should see what we, as a species, are capable of, rather than being sheilded with any truth which does not reinforce the stereotype that real war is as fun as a video game. How can we formulate any opinion if we are shielded from the details, and brought up with the illlusion that the world is a perfect place?
You are talking as if war was something new. You are talking as though the murder of innocent civilians during a war is anything new. For as long as human-kind has existed war has been choronic. Until recently, the murder of civilians during wars was considered to be normal. What we have at the moment is nothing compared to the horrors millions of people were subjected in WWII alone.
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No, Zone, my only point is the more we, as a society, bring this to the public eye, the more de-sensitised we get to this terrrible stuff..
We do NOT need to be bombarded with this type of disgusting, visual reminder of how sickening war and the associated atrocities that occur are..
I don't believe that people need to see be-heading to know how sickening it is..
Do we need to see a young girl raped to know how vile it is?
Do we need to see people getting their brains blown out to know how disgusting it is?
BTW, have ANY of you ever killed ANYTHING or witnessed ANYONE getting killed IN PERSON?
I know there are some Veterans here, so YOU KNOW what I am talking about..
I will never forget what I saw and did in Vietnam, but I don't really need to see any more war atrocities to remind me of how PHUCKED war and the related horror is...
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