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It just seems rude to me. Why cut off a perfectly good head? There are better ways to kill in the name of God.
Has nothing to do with opinion.
It is seen by the UK authorities as terrorist material/ terrorist properganda and therefor spreading it or owning it is a punishable offense.
Your former friend sent you the video as a joke?I had been curious in a macabre kind of way but never really wanted to see a beheading. I'm not much for gory movies either though.
My childhood friend emailed me an untitled video of the Nick Berg decapitation. I don't know why he did it but it started a fight, which ended our friendship. I was caught off guard and absolutely mortified by it. And it kind of made me hate my friend for making me see it.
The point is, do we encourage this behavior by allowing our sense of morbid curiosity to take over and watch them? I know nobody wants to see bodies mangled in a gruesome car accident, but if we drive by one, we can't seem to help the urge to rubberneck for a view.
I haven't seen any of the recent beheadings of Americans by ISIS, nor do I wish too. And though I wouldn't judge anyone who did, is it a smart thing to do either for yourself psychologically or for the terror it's meant to instill? Or does it not really matter and would happen anyway?
Why you shouldn't click on nude celebrity photos or 'beheading porn' - LA Times
I seek out all kinds of raw video of real incidents, from BlueTube and BannedInAmerica to dark websites I would get infracted for just for saying the website name.
Learn, or gain? I don't believe I learn anything. There's no bonus data in the material. What I gain, however, is truth, not a sugar coated version of it, and the truth carries an impact.What do you believe you learn from that?
Learn, or gain? I don't believe I learn anything. There's no bonus data in the material. What I gain, however, is truth, not a sugar coated version of it, and the truth carries an impact.
It's one thing to see a still picture of a militant next to a civilian with a blerb about ISIS demands and then the talking head goes on about how it's the other political party's fault and you should vote for his guy. It's quite another to remove all the media commentary completely, see the interaction between the militant and the civilian, and then hear the civilian's screams of pain and see their blood and watch them die. The murdered person becomes real me. He's not a picture and blerb and a shameless political plug, he's a real human being.
He's dead.
And I watched him die.
That makes the whole ISIS thing real to me, it makes me care, it makes me want to care on a basic human level, not a political bias level.
It's about feeling a connection to another human being.So you use such videos to feed your emotional response, and this helps your intellectual understanding how?
The war and media has left me a bit desensitized on gore. I can watch beheadings with the intent to critically evaluate whether it is true.
I do not like what I see, but I dislike lies even more. I have not been able to watch the proceeding of US civilian beheading from start to finish in these 2 last occasions. The latest one that I saw was an ISIS Iraqi captive being beheaded while held from about 10 men. The captive had completely submitted to death while watching the camera.
About pornography, my father once told me that after about 5 minutes, there's not much left to see, and I've found this to be true. Maybe it's because I live in the country and seeing animals do it is a commonplace, but reducing human sexuality to "Baby, we're just mammals" is sad.
So is viewing executions. After you've seen one, what else is left to see? After a point, watching beheadings makes one a participant in the degradation of human beings, at least in my opinion.
Learn, or gain? I don't believe I learn anything. There's no bonus data in the material. What I gain, however, is truth, not a sugar coated version of it, and the truth carries an impact.
It's one thing to see a still picture of a militant next to a civilian with a blerb about ISIS demands and then the talking head goes on about how it's the other political party's fault and you should vote for his guy. It's quite another to remove all the media commentary completely, see the interaction between the militant and the civilian, hear thew civilian's last words, and then hear the civilian's screams of pain and see their blood and watch them die. The murdered person becomes real me. He's not a picture and blerb and a shameless political plug followed by a commercial brake full of products you need to buy or you won't get that rase and that girl won't **** you and you'll be fat and miserable and alone call now operators are standing by.......he's a real human being.
And now he's dead.
And I watched him die.
That makes the whole ISIS thing real to me, it makes me care, it makes me want to care on a basic human level, not a political bias level.
Your former friend sent you the video as a joke?
I would have sent it to you as information.
I view them. I seek out all kinds of raw video of real incidents, from BlueTube and BannedInAmerica to dark websites I would get infracted for just for saying the website name. While I respect keeping news material PG for family viewing, I am appalled at the total lack of any American media willing to report the raw news and show the ugly truth of the world.
Well, I'm afraid you're mistaken in your interpretation of what Scotland Yard actually said.
Note the bolded part.
This does not mean that everyone who views the video will be prosecuted as you implied.
Would anyone here want the world or their family see them die in a gruesome way? That stuff sticks with you and never goes away. I haven't watched it and don't plan on it. I don't need to watch someone be murdered to make myself believe murder exists.