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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by cryptica on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:03AM (#25611951)
The purpose of these images is not to help individuals to avoid emotional discomfort, it is merely to teach individuals what a term means. In this case, terms like 'state killing' and 'execution' are supposed to create emotional discomfort when read.

The association with the horrible imagery needs to be created or else people will not understand what they're reading with the appropriate degree of emphasis when the term comes up in the future. We will be a nation of apathetic, sedated cowards.

In the old days, people actually saw these horrors with their own eyes, not merely seen pictures; so they understood very well what 'war' meant. Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by CyanBird on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:26AM (#25612046)
> Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.

It is funny reading this after not even been two weeks since the last attack on the US embassy compound in Iraq after the US denied Iraqi calls to remove US troops of the country it invaded 17 years ago

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