Beheadings: How did you feel?

[Adrian II]

Have any of you seen these clips?

I have seen two and that was quite enough. Your brain (or gut) disconnects at some stage and you watch the proceedings as if from a distance. I guess it is a survival reflex or something. On the subject of hatred, I think there are people who will kill whenever they are put in the position to do so, no matter for what cause. Every regime will find hangmen and torturers regardless of ideology or religion. Think Jeffrey Dahmer in uniform, or in a jellaba. The same type of killers operated in the former Yugoslavia and they also made videos of their acts, though I wouldn't be able to find a link so many years after that war.

Also, I think that in a closed, hierarchically structured environment with no moral checks on a person's behaviour, many people are capable of such cruelty. Remember The dirty dozen? Just a movie, but a darn good one. Those guys could have been in the SS instead of the U.S. Army, if it had not been for their place of birth and for the officer (the Lee Marvin character) who directed their vicious energy in the right direction. As it happened, they liberated a concentration camp. Some of them could have been on the opposite side...

[Louis VI the Fat]

I haven't seen them. I know the details about it from what I've read, and to actually go and watch them would be suspiciously close to watching snuff movies. I'm not into that.

(And yes, TO, I am aware of your context. I'm not criticizing you, I've stumbled upon video's of executions and cutting of of hands too).

[Sjakihata]

I simply refuse to watch stuff like that. Not really my kind of thing.

[Togakure]

I have seen two and that was quite enough. Your brain (or gut) disconnects at some stage and you watch the proceedings as if from a distance. ... .

Yes. This description coincides with my own reactions. It was afterwards that empathic thoughts kicked in for me. You make good points, as usual.

Thanks (to all) for taking the time to offer your points of view. It is interesting to read about how different people deal with such realities.

[aw89]

EDIT: ^^^^^ I'll bet you he was joking (Not a good one however)

Also, I think that in a closed, hierarchically structured environment with no moral checks on a person's behaviour, many people are capable of such cruelty. Remember The dirty dozen? Just a movie, but a darn good one. Those guys could have been in the SS instead of the U.S. Army, if it had not been for their place of birth and for the officer (the Lee Marvin character) who directed their vicious energy in the right direction. As it happened, they liberated a concentration camp. Some of them could have been on the opposite side...

Those, are psychopaths, the only 2 % that fire at the enemy to kill them without training. (With training the us has something like 80 and 90 %) They have no fealing of remorse, they could kill you and watch you die completely collected. There was some man who killed tons of people and shot (In different places to see how fast they died and the like) them from 3 feet just watching them die.

I can't claim I have seen a move of a beheading, but once 1 year ago or something a member of a clan i was member of a short while before said to me on msn, "Lol, look at this!", and send me a video. What's this? The tag is fine, no virus. download. A women in a white room, real close up. She starts screaming for her life and a gun comes into view. Boom. In the beginning I didn't know what the hell was going on and suddenly this woman's brain is all over the wall. nice. (He was deleted and ignored soon thereafter)