the sentance is too long

[kirisute]

there is certainly no argument about watching "violent" stuff effects us....but for most people that comes out as play after the event and is then naturally and harmfully filtered through our consciousness through the play.

Yes we see kids today re-enacting grand theft auto or Call of duty in the playground...in the very same way I re enacted He Man and Bruce Lee in the playground when I was young.

and perhaps it is this play that enables us to handle the violence and the horror we see in our lives?

turning these things into games doesn't de sensitise us to them so much as gives us a way to judge them for ourselves and learn to handle them.

The majority of kids know very well the difference between smashing someone to death with a baseball bat in GTA and taking that same bat and beating your best friend to death with it the play ground!

 

I, like Chesters, would consider myself a loner....could I snap? yep...I know I could and I know what I would be capable of (and no im not saying how I know)...but my own conscious will and knowledge of my self guides how I react to given situations.

it would take a pressure point to get me to snap.

a cause for my reaction.

 

in this instance we have no cause..or at least no cause the average person would even begin to understand or equate with murder!

the argument then becomes where does society draw the line at cause and effect?

 

Mental illness alters the perception of what it might take for that cause to appear justifiable.....but, and again this is harsh, where does society justify the existence of mental illness as acceptable when the reactions caused by it is murder?

 

War and other "extreme" contexts do of course cause trauma and de sensitise those exposed..this is proven.....but again; this kid has none of that as far as we know. There is a vast difference between society caring for a solider that has defended it when they snap...and what would appear the situation is with this lad!

[chesters1]

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man" - the Jesuits would agree with you!

sounds like the wishes of a pedo as well LOL

 

i think a great deal of our older more violent reactions are not far under the surface and just need a trigger to set if off ,you can see it in a boring game ,look at the faces of the more undesirables when they see the opponants,most ofcourse will resist further action but theres lots of others who cannot switch hate back off and react ,trouble is they are breeding freely whereas in the animal world a great number would die because of their actions .The human race unfortunately in its protective nanny state is not helping itself .was hitler wrong or just over enthusiastic?

genetically to improve the gene pool you breed from the best but we breed vast numbers of the not so good myself included

Edited November 6, 2014 by chesters1