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You know what?
I don't particularly want to see a human being get hanged on the internet.
If I did, I'd watch Law & Order SVU. It's on constantly.
Like everyone else I watch on Tv all the time, I almost feel like I know the ruthless dictator they are about to murder to get back at him for being a bad man. For that reason alone, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that he's about to die and that people are ranting about how great it is that we "took him down." Nevermind the fact that we're the ones who built him up to begin with.
Oddly enough, I always thought I'd be into the idea of televised execution. I'm just ghoulish that way. But when I hear news outlets talk about "tasteful footage" of a man being murdered, it sort of highlights how perverse it is. Photographic evidence isn't neccesary for the news itself. In the good old days, footage of clowns outside the prison cheering, drinking, and holding signs was news enough. Ding Dong, the bad man is dead.
And yes, he's a very, VERY bad man. So what? He's probably also mentally ill.
Are we just going to go around killing all the "bad men." Do we really think that's okay? Are we willing to hand over our own president for the "kill the bad men" initiative? Why aren't we killing Kim Jong Il and the cats in Red China or even some major Columbian Drug Lords who go around killing cops like a kid burning ants with a magnifying glass?
I don't have a snappy answer to my own sarcastic question.
I really don't know.
But as much as I love horror, I can't get behind this whole celebration of a murder.
Turns out, I only like pretend murder after all...
I don't particularly want to see a human being get hanged on the internet.
If I did, I'd watch Law & Order SVU. It's on constantly.
Like everyone else I watch on Tv all the time, I almost feel like I know the ruthless dictator they are about to murder to get back at him for being a bad man. For that reason alone, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that he's about to die and that people are ranting about how great it is that we "took him down." Nevermind the fact that we're the ones who built him up to begin with.
Oddly enough, I always thought I'd be into the idea of televised execution. I'm just ghoulish that way. But when I hear news outlets talk about "tasteful footage" of a man being murdered, it sort of highlights how perverse it is. Photographic evidence isn't neccesary for the news itself. In the good old days, footage of clowns outside the prison cheering, drinking, and holding signs was news enough. Ding Dong, the bad man is dead.
And yes, he's a very, VERY bad man. So what? He's probably also mentally ill.
Are we just going to go around killing all the "bad men." Do we really think that's okay? Are we willing to hand over our own president for the "kill the bad men" initiative? Why aren't we killing Kim Jong Il and the cats in Red China or even some major Columbian Drug Lords who go around killing cops like a kid burning ants with a magnifying glass?
I don't have a snappy answer to my own sarcastic question.
I really don't know.
But as much as I love horror, I can't get behind this whole celebration of a murder.
Turns out, I only like pretend murder after all...
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