The Morality of Killing Iraqis

[RJT]

bobman,

Just to clarify to you for waxie, now that he clarified his point - it is a classmate of his friend. It is not waxie's friend.

Thanks for the clarification, waxie. Don't worry about editing. We got it now.

RJT

[Andrew Fletcher]

This kid, who I'm now going to refer to as Tom, is not going to join the army. He just likes watching people die for kicks.

[Andrew Fletcher]

I assume there are a lot of people downloading and viewing this material, or there wouldn't be sites like that one. Also, people wouldn't charge for it without a big enough customer base.

[Andrew Fletcher]

To me, there is something extremely problematic about the idea that someone downloads movies of people getting killed and watches them for fun.

It's even more scary that these videos might be being viewed by large audiences for enjoyment. There are dozens of sites that offer this material for a small charge. There is a market for this stuff.

[RJT]

Waxie,

We all agree that it is wacko to enjoy this stuff. Perhaps you have never heard of (what I think have been confirmed as urban legend, thus my initial response) porn flicks where the guy ends up killing the woman. These flicks whether real themselves or real flicks but concocted killings ( think the flicks exists but are fake killings) when/if viewed are viewed by the same type of folk like Tom. What can I say. Welcome, to the real world I guess. Life is often stranger than fiction.

RJT

p.s. Welcome to the forum, too.

[Andrew Fletcher]

I've been poking around the poker forum for a while but this is my first SMP post.

I know that this stuff exists, but it's still very scary to me.

[RJT]

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I've been poking around the poker forum for a while but this is my first SMP post.

I know that this stuff exists, but it's still very scary to me.

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Icarus, (btw, I often change the actual screen name of the poster when I respond. Just for levity. I trust you get the reference?)

I thought is was your first post here (thus my welcome to you).

Well kid, I'll better advise you this: If you think that stuff is scary, wait until you read some of our posts. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

RJT

[Andrew Fletcher]

The kid is not my friend at all. Actually, I really can't stand him.

Actually, we can't write off people who do this as sick, perverted or morbid. Actually is common knowledge that websites that offer videos of alleged real murders, suicide, executions etc. get an ENORMOUS amount of hits.

So in other words we can reckon that is is actually quite common to look for stuff like this.

I agree to a point that there ofcourse severe moral issues to be asked by a person who continusly looks for material like this, but is not in any way uncommon.

Ever seen people gather around an accident site, look at a fire, watch action movies filled with murder, watch videos filled with potentially lethal car crashes, watch war clips on discovery channel showing deaths, getting your eyes glued to the news when a story that shows some morbid clip from a conflict somewhere in the world.

Death fascinates people and gathers their attention, there are several theories as to why, but many are a little on the far fetched side of things, but it should be easy to find stuff on the matter.