Is it normal i don't need to see these pictures

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Whenever huge tragedy happened there are these pictures on TV and in the newspapers: Dead bodies, wounded people, people crying, blood and chaos.
When I see these pictures I turn away. Not because I want to ignore what happened but because I feel like a voyeur. If they tell me there has been a bombing or a shooting and that several people died, I can imagine how horrible it must have been without a camera held into the families faces and showing me the bloody bodyparts of the victims. It's so incredebly disrespectful. I feel like the media thinks we somehow enjoy seeing these pictures - and that thought makes me want to puke for humanity.

Am I somehow missing the point?

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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    I partly agree - it is very disrespectful to the families of the dead to show the pictures to strangers across the world.

    However, I also think it's important that if we're going to have war-zone journalists then they have a moral responsibility to show the *full* horror of war, so people know what is really happening. If war is disgusting, the pictures we see of war should be disgusting too. The graphic pictures captured by journalists during the Vietnam War were, while very insensitive to the families of the dead, key in spurring the anti-war movement which in turn could have had a hand in ending the war. It all depends on whether taking those pictures does enough to justify the greater good, and that isn't a question I have an answer to.

    I don't think anyone, apart from very morbid people, actual likes seeing those pictures. But I do think the news should be about showing us what is true and happening whether we like what is true and happening it or not - and there's not much about war to like.

    I don't believe the media shows us those pictures out of a sense of moral responsibility to inform us, but because it wants to shock us and keep us watching. However, the end result is the same that their moral duty is fulfilled.

    With all that said, I feel very bad for the families of dead people whose privacy is invaded by journalists. I'm not sure if there are laws or codes of conduct concerning what they are allowed or not allowed to do, but I think journalists should have to gain consent from the families before they take any invasive photos.

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    • Maggie2000
      10 years ago

      You make really good points but so far, the graphic images of horror haven't really changed the global attidude. There are bloody atrocities, depraved acts and countless wars and killings going on each and every day. This world is just awful in so many ways.

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      • dom180
        10 years ago

        It might not have changed what politicians do, but I think they really have changed the attitude of "normal people". How could normal people not have their collective attitudes changed by such shocking images?

        For example: you said awful things happen (and you're right), but we wouldn't even know about those awful things happening if we didn't get to see it happening. It certainly wouldn't have the same affect if we just saw written accounts. Thanks to pictures we can have some hope of mobilising the masses against war.
        Support for war steadily decreases over time. In Europe before World War I, the vast majority of people were supportive of war. Today, the vast majority of people are terrified by the prospect of World War III.

        Atrocities are probably less common than they ever have been, they are just more visible than the ever have been. That means that people feel demoralised and think the world is an increasingly terrible place. But in reality it was always bad, and now it's probably getting better not worse.

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  • _Molotov_Cocktail_
    10 years ago

    I don't need these Molotov cocktails.

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    Actually I do need these Molotov cocktails.

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  • sux
    10 years ago

    If youre talking about boston that was fake they used prosthetic gore and amputee actors look it up if you don't believe me and try to disprove it.They used the same actors in Sandy Hook and Aurora too

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    • robbieforgotpw
      10 years ago

      Would our honest govt ever stage events?

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      • sux
        10 years ago

        LOL poop bro got it

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        • robbieforgotpw
          10 years ago

          Power manures the premises

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