(January 26, 2013 at 12:06 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: There are crazy people out there but we have to remember that is exactly what this poor kid is, a crazy person. For all the talk of violent movies and music making people violent we actually live in the least violent time in history.
I think all this talk about our culture desensitizing us to violence is bullshit also. Less than 80 years ago we had public executions in the US. 99.99% of people can differentiate between fantasy and real violence, those people will always be fucked up and sterilizing the violence out of culture won't make any difference.
I think there is a huge difference between seeing people brutally murdered in front of you and killing a load of people for brownie points on a computer war game. Public executions certainly didn't desensitize people to think it was okay, gradually killing more and more people on a computer game or seeing it in movies, there is certainly more of an argument to say that is desensitizing as opposed to public executions of people.
