08-24-2014, 12:56 PM
(08-21-2014, 05:51 PM)Misha link Wrote: I don't think this video is good for public because its shock value does not help you tackle problem as a person who uses reason, instead it produces emotions and desire for revenge and in a sense it makes you more similar to the executioner. Watching the video just sparks more hate and can produce acts of violence of stupid and mentally unstable individuals who, chance is, already have picture of all Arabs as intolerant religious fanatics killing everyone who is different.Of course the context is important. Not any horrible video is public worthy. The former Yugoslavia is an example where the use of horrible imagery was misused. However now, as I see it, there's a sleepy world that needs a wake-up call. The end game is that as more people will be exposed to it, more people will support action. Sorry, but that's more important than the points you guys raise.
It is against human dignity to show such videos. Think of showing any kind of rape video to the public, what effect will it do? Rapists would rape anyway because they have no emotions and empathy towards other humans. All it would do is produce hatred and acts of lynching of imagined or real rapists walking around.Â
Someone here mentioned Balkan Wars. Well, here's is how volunteers and general public was recruited for war. Each night during prime time, state TV would show videos of civilian victims. It was a snuff movie every night, with bodies disfigured beyond recognition, mutilated, beheaded, and it produced exactly the reaction that government wanted: desire for revenge and lack of compassion for other peoples, it created an image of entire other nations as being murderous sub-humans unworthy of human treatment. It made people more willing to enlist and be prepared to commit similar atrocities out of revenge creating never ending circle of violence. You allow yourself to treat other as an animal or worse because you deny his humanity. Victims for war were used throughout for purpose of mobilization. We all here well remember those evening prime time news on state TV as orvellian "five minutes of hate". It made great damage for a chnces that things will get to normal when it comes to relations between peoples here, people don't forget images that easily and thus peace process in Balkans is taking very long time. Even now, some people cannot think of members of other nations involved in wars other than as "murderers".
The fewer men, the greater share of honor