(November 10, 2009 at 6:10 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Watching is an act too. Even if you are unable to influence the outcome, to continue to watch something you condemn is you condoning what you're watching.
You would need to desensitize yourself to it to be able to watch it and not know your moral position.
So watching is never divorced from acting.
So if I watch a murderer kill someone... I am just as terrible as that murderer?
So i suppose watching movies is a terrible crime now?
I can easily watch something I condemn... but I can't separate it from my emotions
For example, watching a rape video makes me curl my first up like an enraged little imp. I think it is entirely different to witness something than it is to participate in something. Witnessing something, and remaining silent on the other hand: that is a horrible crime in itself, for you are knowingly allowing the perpetrator to run free.But just watching something isn't bad in itself
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
