Scanning through the front page of CNN.com recently was rather shocking to me. Alongside several headlines like:
"Five die in Miami murder-suicide"
"Austrian to plead guilty to rape"
"NFL player hits, kills pedestrian",
there are headlines like:
"'Race to Witch Mountain' casts a spell at No. 1"
"Space shuttle set for Sunday launch"
"Flight attendant raps, passengers clap"
Are we so desensitized that we can read a story about horrific deaths or crimes and then move on to read an article about Disney's new movie success in the box office with it having no effect on us whatsoever? Are we now completely unmoved from seeing headlines like these? Has war and violence permeated into our lives to such an extent that it is just commonplace? Is it something we just dismiss (or attempt to)?
I'm curious to hear what others have to say about this.
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The answer...YES!!
We hear about so many terrible things everyday that we have learned to shrug it off. The only time most of us stop to think about it is if it is in the news for any length of time. It is a sad situation where we can go from murder to cartoons.
I think people have a hard time associating with a lot of the tragedies and awful things going on out there. There's a mentality that stuff like that happens and it's not good, but it'll never happen to ME or anyone I know. That sort of mindset removes you from connecting with anything really going on and all it is is just a story in the paper, in a way it dehumanizes the situation.
I have to agree with what most are saying. I was actually thinking about this earlier today. It seems that in more and more movies rape is commonplace scene now. Not just people saying they got raped, but nearly showing the entire act. Though it is just a movie and acting, it is however quite profound that we have reached this point.
Well i think that the world has moved to a place where we are definitely desensitized. It is hard not to be. The way society is today, we are constantly flooded with information. Some of this information applies to us, but the majority doesn't effect us for the most part. So as consumers of this information we have to take it in, interpret it, and discard it very quickly.
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