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Originally Posted by shakran
No it isn't. I firmly believe that if the government is gonna condone an execution, they should HAVE to show it on TV. Maybe if more people saw the barbarism that is legalized murder, they'd get tired of it, and demand that we put a stop to it.
That's the same reason we absolutely SHOULD show the destroyed bodies of our dead soldiers. Sure, it's shocking and very uncomfortable to watch. But maybe if people saw that every damn day on the TV they wouldn't be so eager to support getting into another war. I'm willing to sacrifice the supposed dignity of a few dead people in order to save thousands of lives.
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I completely understand your point of view but I believe the only outcome of it would be that people would only become
more enured and unaffected by images of death and less reflective about the concepts of war and execution. Anything shown often enough on television becomes something no longer of reality. It removes the watcher from real experience. Or maybe I'm just no longer convinced of mankind's innate tendency to move away from barbarism.