• kava@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    it’s a curiosity thing. i think there’s a value to seeing it, although not regularly seeing it.

    humans are capable of some horrifying brutality. we live in nice little perfect bubbles and we don’t even realize it.

    for example, it’s very easy to catch yourself cheering for war in the name of idealism. but see a couple dozen war videos and you realize what it really means. i think your statement honestly holds true for any type of morbid type of content. for example Crime and Punishment- dissecting the psychology of a double homicide. you could say “why would you read 500 pages of dense literature about someone murdering two innocent people?”

    it’s because that’s part of the human experience, for better or worse.

    similar to interrogation videos on YouTube. Even poetry like Suicide in the Trenches


    I knew a simple soldier boy

    Who grinned at life in empty joy,

    Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,

    And whistled early with the lark.

    In winter trenches, cowed and glum,

    With crumps and lice and lack of rum,

    He put a bullet through his brain.

    No one spoke of him again.

    You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye

    Who cheer when soldier lads march by,

    Sneak home and pray you’ll never know

    The hell where youth and laughter go.