tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post2481669017206811909..comments2023-11-10T09:15:40.084-08:00Comments on The Friends of Jake: Torturing ChildrenDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-77831783799736457022011-06-11T20:12:47.128-07:002011-06-11T20:12:47.128-07:00welcome to the world of Paul Ryan, Jon Boehner, Ne...welcome to the world of Paul Ryan, Jon Boehner, Newt Ginrich, and the effervescent Christian right. <br /><br />What's wrong with torturing a child? EVERYTHING!!!!!Frank Remkiewicz aka “Tree”https://www.blogger.com/profile/00501821790434895826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-30676844050205235062011-06-11T11:51:17.794-07:002011-06-11T11:51:17.794-07:00I'm only trying to account for the reported de...I'm only trying to account for the reported <i>demographic change</i>, Mark. Not The Human Condition (which hasn't changed, and is too violent, too often)JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-79688216555640914812011-06-11T00:22:30.799-07:002011-06-11T00:22:30.799-07:00Too easy, JCF.
How do you account for the Middle...Too easy, JCF. <br /><br />How do you account for the Middle Ages right up to the present? No. It isn't video games, or rap music, or violence on tv. Human life is devalued in the very fabric of this world. We sell our time, the minutes and hours of our lives, for meager subsistence. We are powerless in the face of those who prey on us for profit. We teach our children in school nothing of being a good human, just being a good worker with a number and evaluation score rather than a name. You are your job and your salary, and to lose those is to lose your being. That's the cause for this end to empathy. What's to empathize? You're a number and <i>I'm</i> a number, too, so neither matter; but something inside tells us this is not true and sets up a dissonance that drives this generation, and, increasingly, the rest of us to a sociopathic insanity. <br /><br />Video games are the outlet, a symptom, not a cause. Do away with things like them, and you'll see how animalistic people will get with no fantasy outlet.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-76989902549714221362011-06-10T14:29:23.434-07:002011-06-10T14:29:23.434-07:00We have a generation of youth (esp. boys) who'...We have a generation of youth (esp. boys) who've grown up torturing digital avatars via video games.<br /><br />That they can't tell the moral difference between that, and torturing actual human beings, doesn't surprise me. [Yeah, I'm making a simplistic argument, but I really think violent video games---even moreso than the violent movies of previous cohorts---have played a major role.]JCFnoreply@blogger.com