Sorry, but you are an idiot..

[Jamastiene]

72. I don't think so.

If anything, watching more gruesome uncensored news videos (the raw footage, uncensored) has made me MORE empathetic to the point that I looked up the outcome of one guy's accident. (Spoiler: He lived and is doing fine now.) He was cut in half. It was very very graphic. I felt grossed out at first, but then before the video was over, I felt real empathy for him moreso than if someone had just told me it happened and I never actually saw the footage.

I think it is what is inside the person that causes the person to act one way or another. I felt empathy and hoped the guy made it. I was glad to find out he did make it. Others might feel, react, and act differently.

One variable that might be important to mention in my case is: I can watch the most gruesome stuff as long as it doesn't involve animals. That, I still cannot, to this day, stand to see. The soldier throwing the puppy off the cliff video that went around during the Bush admin, still haunts me to this day. It was on DU. I don't know why I watched it, but I regret it. I think I will never get that out of my head. That video DID make me want to become violent...toward the asshole who killed that puppy the way he did. I didn't though. I just despised his actions in that video and felt really bad for the poor puppy.


I'm not sure what the "correct" answer is, but that's my take on it.