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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Violence in movies
Message-ID: <728@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 14:27:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 14:27:43 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 10:50:26 EDT
References: <140@nvuxg.UUCP> <1902@reed.UUCP> <1512@hammer.UUCP> <1921@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <1921@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
>                            ... It's strange - but someone getting shot
>doesn't make me cringe, whereas someone getting stabbed or cut does...
>            ... Anyone else feel this way? (About knives vs guns vs
>whatever.)

I have similar feelings about knives vs. guns.  My guess  is  it's  because
we've  all  been  cut  accidentally at one time or another in our lives and
know what it feels like.  Most of  us  have  never  been  shot.  It's  much
easier to empathize with something you've experienced yourself.  We've also
been desensitized by endless shootings on television and in films where the
real effects of being shot are censored out to avoid offending the majority
of people watching.

P.S.:  Our news software was down for most of the past  two  weeks  so  I'm
       just getting back into things.  Sorry if I've missed any articles or
       mail I should have responded to.

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