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Originally Posted by flameswin
I can't believe you guys have become desensitized to real life tragedies from watching movies and video games. How does that work? 
I've seen some really gory, violent stuff in movies and video games, but that doesn't desensitize me at all to real people losing their lives on video. Seriously, that's weird, guys. |
I think we've had this exact conversation before...totally getting some deja vu here.
The Dwyer video, for whatever reason, doesn't disturb me that much. That's not to say I watch it for fun, I've only ever seen it twice I think, but it doesn't make me get that knot in my stomach and keep me up at night.
The thing is, I never watch internet gross out videos. Never seen 2 girls 1 cup, never seen 2 guys 1 horse (I heard muffled sounds from the video from the next room when some people I know watched it and that still bothers me), never seen any of those other effed up things be it gross out or violent deaths that bother people.
But I would never attribute my sensitivity (or desensitivity) to movies or video games. I don't know. Maybe it is because the Dwyer video is self inflicted and he was obviously troubled with being partially framed and all. I've even seen still photographs of car accidents that really bothered me.
Anyway, that's all OT and has nothing to do with this topic.