Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!waltervj From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Violence in movies Message-ID: <3616@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 21:17:07 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3616 Posted: Mon Sep 23 21:17:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:48:51 EDT References: <140@nvuxg.UUCP> <1902@reed.UUCP> <1512@hammer.UUCP> <1921@reed.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 21 AIYEE! Elizabeth, your letter is a chiller in and of it's self! You speak of how you don't mind seeing (in the movies) someone getting shot but to actually see the gore and have to deal with that is a bad scene. This perfectly reflects actual murder statistics and ease of violence studies. When people can stand back at a safe, remote, distance and kill they are much more likely to do so. This is why handguns are such a threat and the bomb, where we can obliterate millions of living, breathing souls with the mere press of a button from continents away is so many times worse than any previous weapon. This allows us to dehumanize others, they become just objects to be destroyed. (Sartre's idear of objectification.) I hadn't previously thought about it in these terms but it's really quite nasty. I too abhore the gory violence of Friday the 13th and it's family of films but love to watch the 'clean' violence of James Bond and such. Where does this lead us??? --' '-- /_ -Walter. -==- iiii "I drink and become thirsty..." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com