01-05-2011, 10:46 PM
(01-05-2011, 06:56 AM)SidewaysDan Wrote: Aren't these things to be expected? We used to send 16 year olds to kill others in Wars... I don't think this graphical violence is all-together that new to the human race...Violence is not new to the human race.
Fantasies about violence are not new to the human race.
Ready access to explicit depictions of extreme violence (both real and fake/movie) to everyone from testosteroned-up 18 year olds to any 5 year old with a computer and a minute free from direct adult supervision is.
And while watching a couple of minutes of Hostel won't result in the average home handyman trying new things with his electric drill, de-sensitization is a real phenomena. The 16 year olds sent to war a few generations ago probably threw up the first time they saw one of their mates heads blown off. Todays kids will just curse the fact that they weren't filming at the time so they won't have anything to upload to youtube. Tomorrow's kids will have already seen their friends head blown off so many times before, in High Definition 3D Virtual Reality FPS games, that they wouldn't even consider a simple head shot worth filming. [Not that it will matter, because all soldiers will have helmet cams which will have recorded it all anyway.]
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."