Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump
It's real life. Don't seek the stuff out, but I don't cover my eyes and run from the room either. I've seen some really gory stuff in real life and this is just like that

What shocks a lot of people I'm sure is how it is nothing like beheadings/cut throats in "the movies". People are so media brainwashed that you get debates of fake-not fake all the time on the most obvious real clips, like the guy who shot himself in the police interrogation room, and its because people are stupid and watch too much tv

sometimes i wonder how many people on the 9/11 planes stood there frozen in fear after seeing the hijackers kill one or two of the passengers in a similar manner....it was nothing like they had ever seen before, and the sound of it alone is enough to make people vomit. witnessing these sorts of acts make a lot of people freeze in their shoes, which is why the insurgents perform these acts on the streets and make videos to release to scared civilians.

I can't argue that its good for people to watch these, but I also can't argue that its bad for people to watch them either, because it is real and so unlike any of the garble the media feed us.
Indeed.

"witnessing these sorts of acts make a lot of people freeze in their shoes ..." - Yep. Just thinking about it has caused several in this thread to speak out strongly about how they refuse to view such things, and some have also judged others harshly who do. I am curious to observe how well they'd hold up if faced with something of this level of intensity in real life. I see coping with such things as a form of self-training--never say never, etc..