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Originally Posted by P_Funk
If all this gore is just a special effect then should our reaction to someone violently raping another person in gut wrenching absolute detail in a movie be treated the same way? I mean, thats not real either, they're just actors. I mean... as long as during the vivid rape scene nobody uses any foul language.
So if thats your attitude then why are you insisting how different swearing is from gore? Sounds like you wanna have your cake and eat it too. Tell me I'm just whining but also I'm a fool if I think words mean nothing.  |
You misunderstood my point.I was trying to say that you had seen a special effect something not real and your brain knows this violence in any movie is acted out it is not real in my opinion to a rationally minded adult something real and something acted out are very different physiologically speaking.
Meaning if you actually did in fact see a decapitated human being it would be distressing to you and might have a long term physiological effect as is it does for many people who experience violence in warfare.
I never once stated that there was a difference between violence and language but there is most certainly to a young kid seeing some violent act in a film is worse than hearing foul language.
I think honestly in our society there is too much use of both violence and language in media and the violence in particular desensitizes people to the idea of violence not dealing with seeing the real thing.
I am not saying that you cant watch violence or language I am saying some networks are very conservative about the language.I thought my point was a bit clear when I said "Everything most networks do is strange if you ask me."
In other words they have no problem editing out language because kids might be watching yet it is in a war film that shows some graphic violence and they see nothing wrong with that it seems.
Comedy Central has no "balls" at all they follow the FCC regulations when they show a fully unedited show or film it is after 10pm up tp 6am it is because they are allowed to.Which is funny because they are a cable network so they are sucking the teat of advertisers who might not place adds.
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/regu...-and-profanity
"Along the same lines: there's a film called "This Film is Not Yet Rated" that points out that films with scenes where a woman is raped gets away with a lower age rating than a film where a woman has consensual sex."
Just watch a pornographic film then and get what you want.
And all words have meaning if they had none we would not have languages and on a forum we would just type;
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggasjkzsjkzsjkzsjkz sjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkzsjkz. Or actually nothing at all because without words or language we would have nothing to say.
Networks are just an extension of our confused society on the one hand we want to be free to express what we want on the other we also want to be puritanical and tell others what we want them to do and think.There should be something in the middle and there is but nobody likes that they go too far one way or the other.