I do not dare condemn grief, it is not my intention nor my right
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Rather, I think it unwise for any 21st century authority to use time and energy to ban videos of people dying on the internet as opposed to issues like food security or offering aid to those left behind
People aren't getting food security or aid to those left behind right now so why is your loaded advocacy for anything-goes snuff film legalization even on the same table?
EDIT: To clarify my position, the "what about more important things" argument is exactly the rhetorical tactic that "Effective Altruists" pushed in their claims that helping living actual people in need doesn't matter in the long run because billions of years in the future the immortal cyber-angels dancing on the head of a Singularity(tm) pin will thank us for making billionaires richer in the present instead. "We can't have small thing until vague and out of reach big thing happens" first is the death of momentum.
What are the detrimental effects of a small sample of sickos watching people die on the wider population? Is the problem that people watch violent death or the fact that people die violently in preventable ways?
I'm not even going to entertain the "a few bad apples" line of bullshit arguing there. Sometimes one is enough and a few is a crowd.
If someone I loved was killed and "a small sample of sickos" were getting off to footage of that killing, yes I would be more than upset and no amount of Rick and Morty binge watching would change that.
My sides left the country imagining a redditor saying this at a funeral and getting beaten up.
Good, because in a just universe, that's exactly what would happen in such a measurable and predictable way that clocks could run on it.
To your credit you answered well enough where I'm not quite as pissed off at your first post here with provided additional context. I still disagree with you strongly, but it's something.
Well I think that snuff films classify as murder (people killed for the sake of the camera) and therefore should be banned because of that, I don't think content like that should be legal or legalized. I am referring more to the common violent content shared on the internet which involves horrific deaths that happen to be recorded on camera spontaneously out of coincidence.
I agree that it makes sense for the government to give an option to people as to whether, in the event of their death being recorded on camera, they would want the videos taken down for privacy's sake. The decision should be in the hands of the citizen and their family, not the government.
To the in-effective altruists I will say that they are mad for considering the opinions of their fanfiction omnissiah 9000 gorillion years in a future that only exists in their imagination more important than... solving world hunger.
You already declared that all banning is futile and that all attempts to ban something automatically result in government abuse of said bans (yes, the government sucking sucks in Burgerland, but it's still a presumptive worldwide claim to make), so it's not like there'd be much to distinguish killed-to-entertain-hogs from killed-for-other-reasons-but-hogs-get-entertained.
By banning I mean hunt down the murderers who profit from their killings and shut down the site permanently. I do not agree that all government regulation is futile, for instance, the manufacture of nuclear weapons should be banned wholesale by any government (unless the BETA invade or something).
Furthermore, in my view, a video which coincidentally captures a violent death is a sincere snapshot of reality at the time and it in itself is neither good nor bad. However, I do acknowledge that there are sick fucks (e.g. les francais) who use free speech as an excuse to get a rise out of mocking and belittling the victims of a tragedy through such videos. The issue I see with banning the videos themselves is that the bullies will remain bullies and move on to something else. After all they are the products of a capitalist society where human life and death is cheap.
Rather I think it would be better to ban the behaviour, as in allow the archival of gore away from sites where people can be accidentally traumatized by stumbling upon it, presented with sobriety without a comment section. The best strategy would be to build a world such that human life is treasured and everyone is taken care of, reducing levels of sick fuckery.
The best strategy would be to build a world such that human life is treasured and everyone is taken care of, reducing levels of sick fuckery.
This one part is in steep contrast to the reductionist description provided for dead people earlier in this comment chain. I prefer this side of the contrast, so works for me.
I already don't like where this is going.
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People aren't getting food security or aid to those left behind right now so why is your loaded advocacy for anything-goes snuff film legalization even on the same table?
EDIT: To clarify my position, the "what about more important things" argument is exactly the rhetorical tactic that "Effective Altruists" pushed in their claims that helping living actual people in need doesn't matter in the long run because billions of years in the future the immortal cyber-angels dancing on the head of a Singularity(tm) pin will thank us for making billionaires richer in the present instead. "We can't have small thing until vague and out of reach big thing happens" first is the death of momentum.
I'm not even going to entertain the "a few bad apples" line of bullshit arguing there. Sometimes one is enough and a few is a crowd.
If someone I loved was killed and "a small sample of sickos" were getting off to footage of that killing, yes I would be more than upset and no amount of Rick and Morty binge watching would change that.
Good, because in a just universe, that's exactly what would happen in such a measurable and predictable way that clocks could run on it.
To your credit you answered well enough where I'm not quite as pissed off at your first post here with provided additional context. I still disagree with you strongly, but it's something.
Well I think that snuff films classify as murder (people killed for the sake of the camera) and therefore should be banned because of that, I don't think content like that should be legal or legalized. I am referring more to the common violent content shared on the internet which involves horrific deaths that happen to be recorded on camera spontaneously out of coincidence.
I agree that it makes sense for the government to give an option to people as to whether, in the event of their death being recorded on camera, they would want the videos taken down for privacy's sake. The decision should be in the hands of the citizen and their family, not the government.
To the in-effective altruists I will say that they are mad for considering the opinions of their fanfiction omnissiah 9000 gorillion years in a future that only exists in their imagination more important than... solving world hunger.
You already declared that all banning is futile and that all attempts to ban something automatically result in government abuse of said bans (yes, the government sucking sucks in Burgerland, but it's still a presumptive worldwide claim to make), so it's not like there'd be much to distinguish killed-to-entertain-hogs from killed-for-other-reasons-but-hogs-get-entertained.
By banning I mean hunt down the murderers who profit from their killings and shut down the site permanently. I do not agree that all government regulation is futile, for instance, the manufacture of nuclear weapons should be banned wholesale by any government (unless the BETA invade or something).
Furthermore, in my view, a video which coincidentally captures a violent death is a sincere snapshot of reality at the time and it in itself is neither good nor bad. However, I do acknowledge that there are sick fucks (e.g. les francais) who use free speech as an excuse to get a rise out of mocking and belittling the victims of a tragedy through such videos. The issue I see with banning the videos themselves is that the bullies will remain bullies and move on to something else. After all they are the products of a capitalist society where human life and death is cheap.
Rather I think it would be better to ban the behaviour, as in allow the archival of gore away from sites where people can be accidentally traumatized by stumbling upon it, presented with sobriety without a comment section. The best strategy would be to build a world such that human life is treasured and everyone is taken care of, reducing levels of sick fuckery.
This one part is in steep contrast to the
reductionist description provided for dead people earlier in this comment chain. I prefer this side of the contrast, so works for me.