"Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message
...
> notbob wrote:
>> On 2007-07-18, Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>clean. Violence is messy and I think we do a disservice to the victims
>>>and
>>>to ourselves if we try to delude ourselves into thinking that killing is
>>>not a dirty, grisly business. Maybe a touch of reality is what people
>>>need
>>>to understand what is really involved.
>>
>>
>> Exactly, Dave. SPR was intentionally sickeningly realistic so those
>> of us who were not there could more fully appreciate those who were
>> and the sacrifice they made. The horror of coming off those boats
>> ....if one made it off!... and seeing buddies dropping like flies and
>> ripped to shreds
>
> Yeah but making an industry out of it for entertainment ($$$profit$$$)
> seems to me to be worse than sanitizing it, desensitizing people to it in
> order to make lots of money.
>
> To me the "entertainment" industry is breaking the social contract just as
> much as if they were selling tainted pet food.
> --

Precisely. And adding to the already numb generations who have been
bludgeoned by this explicit depiction of violence for so long they feel
nothing.



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