Why is it inhumane

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(03-20-2016, 02:40 PM)GMDino Wrote: I just read a story about a teacher in New York who got fined $300 for showing her middle school class an ISIS beheading video.

We want to get outraged and get revenge...we don't want to see it.

We have the luxury of having the technological ease of impersonal violence/killing afforded to us.  The idea of people who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus winning campaign points by promising to drop more bombs on people in (insert evil country here) than his opponents seems logical, for some reason. I mean, I'm not killing anyone...I'm just voting for a guy who will tell other people to kill people. I'm in the clear on this one when I find myself standing in front of Jesus on judgement day!

I also notice the way people view violence changes depending on the method, as if that really matters...right?  We all heard people who claim they'd have no issue with fatally shooting someone in their house, but if you tell them "I prefer to use a sledgehammer and break the guy's legs and arms and then smash his skull to pieces until he's dead" that person who 100% KNOWS he can/will end a man's life without hesitation will probably think you're pretty odd.  Again, people seem to think "shooting someone" is just a fairly simple thing to do and to deal with.  Yep, I killed someone...so be it.  What's on TV? Hell, what if you tell people that a dog wandered into your yard and was growling and you shot and killed it. If you act too proud of that people might think you are a psycho.

I'm fairly sure this sort of technological detachment from killing was discussed in Catch-22 (or was this during my psychology schooling?) where the bombardiers reported that dropping bombs on "targets" from high enough that you can't see, or ultimately identify the targets as individual people made it easier to shrug it off as a task, rather than a direct action to end life.

Again, I've known too many people who actually have "pre-loaded" catchphrases they plan to use when they shoot and kill someone.  We're a culture raised by an inordinately bizarre set of movies, right?