Also I watched the Christchurch stream and there's something about someone seeing another person pleading for help and seeing the cameraman put a bullet in their head that really communicates a horror that words fail to.
For me at least, it humanises the dead (no longer statistics) and demonstrates the true horror of the capacity of human cruelty. Lest we forget.
I won't forget what I've seen, I won't forget how cruel people can be when unshackled and these stories act as significant warnings to me. While the press rationalise the next round of wars I've seen what it looks like and will never want.
> I can imagine that it sends some people down the drain and incentivises violence.
As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.
Propoganda for terrorism and cartels is a whole other argument though.
I find it very weird that you need gore for a memento mori.
> As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.
Well, if I think about how I felt while watching this stuff (very, very uneasy) versus how I felt while gaming or watching movies I'd say there's quite a difference. So I would argue that the brain indeed processes those things differently.
in this instance i am living 1-life != 1-life, it just depends. in this instance institutions sugarcoat mass-murders and put people in prisons just for stealing a bread. we have no tool to defend against indoctrination at this scale.
i think it was 10 years ago that i was reading quite about isreal-philistine conflict, the injustices just overwhelms you, you become bitter and bitter, at one point i even hated them, not just the understandable hatred against a government. then i came across to this video, group of rabbies was beaten by police, blood everywhere. they were protesting against government policies. that single video showed me what a tool i was, generalizing group of people...
living an experience is infinitly harder than reading it. and closest thing to living is watching the real footage.
> I'm really wondering what happens to a brain that is exposed to such things
that is not very empathetic, is it now.
I'm really wondering what happens to a brain that is exposed to such things. Now I would be really interested in the psychological effects of such content on our brains. But imho it's just weird to consume that stuff. Also I'm really glad that it's forbidden in Germany to take or publish videos of these things due to personality rights.