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Apr. 16th, 2008 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribbanYesterday I read something that upset me. It was a few months old article series about teenage boys who watch sex & violence video clips on the internet. Now that's nothing new, but what upset me is that a lot of the footage is of actual violence; mostly murders and executions from the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
I understand the need to test limits, to expose yourself to shocking things. I understand about watching horror films or pornography. But to get kicks from watching actual people suffer and get killed for real is incredibly immoral.
I once saw a kiddy porn picture by accident and it took me years to forget it.
I even try not to watch people being killed on the news. I think a person's moment of death is incredibly personal and to broadcast it is disrespectful. It annoys me the way footage of actual death and mayhem is treated just like any other footage. Any random pop artist can use stock footage of massmurder in their MTV video to get the right kind of backdrop to their music.
Like Linkin Park has the shots of the WTC collapse in the video to What I've done. That's really insane, especially considering that it was only six years ago! I really like that song but it annoys me that the death of 3000 people is used to accentuate it.
When I was thirteen I was mad about action films; Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Robocop etc. Big explosions, moderate violence, happy ending. Why can't that be enough for the teens of today? Don't they know anything about real suffering?
I understand the need to test limits, to expose yourself to shocking things. I understand about watching horror films or pornography. But to get kicks from watching actual people suffer and get killed for real is incredibly immoral.
I once saw a kiddy porn picture by accident and it took me years to forget it.
I even try not to watch people being killed on the news. I think a person's moment of death is incredibly personal and to broadcast it is disrespectful. It annoys me the way footage of actual death and mayhem is treated just like any other footage. Any random pop artist can use stock footage of massmurder in their MTV video to get the right kind of backdrop to their music.
Like Linkin Park has the shots of the WTC collapse in the video to What I've done. That's really insane, especially considering that it was only six years ago! I really like that song but it annoys me that the death of 3000 people is used to accentuate it.
When I was thirteen I was mad about action films; Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Robocop etc. Big explosions, moderate violence, happy ending. Why can't that be enough for the teens of today? Don't they know anything about real suffering?
