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F4lconF16

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6. To answer part of your question
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 04:00 AM
Sep 2014

I think that people understand the difference between television/movies and real beheadings. There's a gut level reaction looking at war pictures, or other traumatic things. There is a reason that the picture of the young Vietnamese girl running naked and burned down the road had such a wrenching impact on so many...

If pictures had only the same impact as violent television and movies, then the MSM would not be trying so hard to censor war journalism and photography. The thing is, they do have an effect on the vast majority of the population, and therefore we're never exposed to the realities of what we're doing to people and countries in the middle east and the rest of the world. Things like that aren't real. That type of stuff only happens in the movies.

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Thanks. H2O Man Sep 2014 #16
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