As I’ve gotten older, videos that wouldn’t have elicited a reaction when I was a teen, I now find very unpleasant. I’m not sure why that is, but I do find it interesting.
I don’t know how much of it is hormonal, but I think that testosterone does play a role in emotional processing, and I think that the levels teenage boys deal with is often enough to make some intense feelings difficult to access.
It could also be related to life experience and what you find relatable now vs then.
OP spent formative years browsing Rotten/LiveLeak and it shows
Reminds me of that neuroscientist who was looking at signs of psychopathy in brains. He needed like 500 for the study and only had like 487 so he got some friends and family to give him theirs and threw in his own too. When the study was over and they went to unblind the results it turned out he had a psychopath brain. He was like,“in retrospect, a lot of the time I did wonder why other people found (x/y/z) so disturbing when it didn’t bother me at all.” Except nobody who’s ever actually worked with a neuroscientist was surprised in any way.
People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.
It turns out a bunch of CEOs are lowkey psychopaths for exactly the reasons you state and idk that I like where that’s led us. I think the better answer is continually educating people on their both right and obligation to routinely engage in self political representation. People keep voting red or blue once every 4 years and expect those people to make decisions in their best interest in that time. Like that’s not even just a two party problem at that point it’s like. Who’re your local judges? Who’s in charge of your school board? Who’s the police chief? Do you bother them about shit on the regular? I won’t say I’m great at that but that’s the issue. Everybody just needs to be more involved. Everywhere. All the time.
Yeah. I saw a news report once where they called footage disturbing and it was just a dude who later committed a crime walking down the street.
Some things just hurt to watch subconsciously and the feeling you get is numbness.
For a senior paramedic, a multi-car crash with people screaming all around is probably just another Monday, while I do get quite disturbed by seeing things that are supposed to be inside the body. Not that I couldn’t stand blood, it’s just wrong, and sets of the same pre-historic monkey alarm bell as big spiders and unusual amounts of fecal matter.
While I believe you can learn to push through most of that, different people have different tolerances for different things at different times. Plus, “I can handle this” is different from “I enjoy watching this right now”. I would be pretty happy to have a gore warning when watching something while eating, for example. Or a warning about a super depressing story when I am feeling down anyway.
you’ve been wanking to liveleak too much
I miss liveleak…
What happened to it?
The powers that be didn’t like their war crimes being made public.
it leaked all its live
You can agree that something is disgusting on a fundamental level while still feeling nothing…
I find the constant suffering of others to be heartbreaking, but I don’t actually go around feeling heartbroken all the time.
Being desensitized by things I’ve seen on the interwebs over the years has dulled any reaction I might have, but I an still understand, articulate, and sympathize with those feelings.
Honestly i have been exposed to so much gore and crazy shit at school in my teens online that i don’t feel anything anymore
People say those things to protect us, but meanwhile we are so used to seeing violence that we don’t care anymore.
It depends. What is the footage of? If you’re watching someone get attacked, murdered, and/or raped and you don’t feel sick to your stomach I’d say something is wrong with you. If you’re watching a city being attacked and you don’t see casualties of war I’d understand if you don’t sympathize because you’re only seeing buildings being destroyed not the humans that are being affected. It’s hard for a lot of people to empathize unless they’ve gone through something similar. It’s still not great that you can’t put 2 and 2 together, but it’s not abnormal.
I watched the Kirk one and was honestly satisfied.
I felt absolutely nothing when I watched charlie Kirk get shot. Does that make me a bad person?
And I have never really seen many gore videos.
It gave me a jolt of joy and I won’t apologize for that.
the only thing I felt was “huh. looks like some movies are indeed realistic”
To be honest, I understand being happy that someone who spread so much hate was murdered. This is a person who vehemently believed that gay and trans people shouldn’t exist. I completely understand the hatred of this man, but he is a human being and a sentient being. We really shouldn’t be supporting the murder of other humans even if we hate their views. I will concede however that that may be the only way out of the mess we’re in.
There are more of us than there are of them and yet we’re still under the control of those that hate us. If they won’t play by the rules then violence is the only option we have left. I’d much prefer the peaceful option if it were an option, and I hope that sanity will return to the US soon.
I was so ready to fight you with that first half, not gonna lie. I’m very much so in the camp that Charlie Kirk no longer being alive is a good thing, however, I do think the way he died may be a bad thing in that it kinda makes him a martyr. I think one huge mistake that people make with things like this is to not recognize that truly evil people were indeed still human. The most evil humans to ever live in Imperial Japan’s Unit 731 needed to die by any means necessary, but they were still human.
I think that the belief that all humans are good or that all humans are bad is something that fundamentally distorts how we think about others, especially in political spaces. Humans aren’t innately morally aligned, work is put in to align anyone one way or another. People change, and, again, work must be put in to do so. All that to say that someone deserving death for how evil they are isn’t something easily determined, neither is it so black and white, nor can you ignore the potential for change. I think Charlie Kirk is a good example as I’m not really convinced he was reasonably unlikely to change versus someone like Nick Fuentes. However, the damage he has done to political discourse would be something difficult to overcome and can’t be ignored due to the scale. While I agree that him being dead is a net positive for humanity, I can’t agree with anyone saying it’s an easy slam-dunk determination to make.
What if they deserved it, like if someone was to execute trump on live TV?
Depends on how dehumanized they are in your head.
Again, we shouldn’t support the murder of anyone or anything even if they deserve it. Regardless, I won’t judge anyone who wants people like Trump and Charlie Kirk to disappear. Many of us are just fighting for our right to exist. Republicans hate minorities, trans, gay, and anyone different from them and they are using ICE to attack anyone they deem different.
I’d much prefer if Trump were removed from office dishonorably and we appointed someone who could return sanity to the US. However, I won’t judge anyone wishing death on those that want them dead and have the power to make it so.
Again, we shouldn’t support the murder of anyone or anything even if they deserve it
Disagree, Hitler deserved to be bullied until he killed himself. But sure, the support for death when more peaceful methods have failed seems fine to me.
Oh boy don t make me dream like that
I feel like it’d be more thematically appropriate if he choked on a hamburger. Then he’s not exactly a martyr.
True, or fell down some stairs.
