Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris T
The more it becomes an international controversy, and the more you hear people on TV and radio talking about it, the more likely folks are to say to themselves, "well, I suppose I should go and see what all the fuss is about then." However, that's a world apart from embedding the video into a forum post where plenty of people who didn't want to see it are likely to trip over it.
Even so, it all rather reminds me of the stories of nice little old grannies sitting by the gilloutine doing their knitting and watching while the toffs got their heads separated from their shoulders. Of course, if normal, civilised, nice people go to watch an execution, then it must be ok for everyone else to watch too, eh?
|
Totally agree, I have no interest in seeing it.
He's dead, I know that, why do I need to see it happen?
By posting it embedded in a forum, you remove people's right to choose not to see it.
One of the things I like about the forums I run or frequent, is that the admins are sensible enough to put warnings on anything which may offend, and not allow anything which may sicken.
Someone at work showed me a video without asking me first, of what I guess was a russian soldier being murdered in the most vile way, and I have to ask, why would any normal person want to watch that?
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Towny
I'm not going to watch it myself. I'm one of those (apparently shrinking) number of people who thought the point in history when we abandoned public executions in this country was a civilised step forward.
The treatment of the vanquished Saddam Hussein should have been a chance for those who replaced him to show that thier way is better than his. On the current evidence, they're not doing very well at all. At least the antics that took place within Saddam's gruesome torture chambers and gallows didn't have a tendency to leak out via the WWW or the world media.
|
I can see where you're coming from, but on the subject of being better or equal to his way, at least from what I've heard hanging (trap door method rather than strangulation) is quick and relatively painless, compared with his way of doing it (wood chipper, beaten to death, etc).