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To: jbe who wrote (47885)	7/29/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan, I'm sure you have seen a lot., I'm sorry.. I'm not going down that road.. I don't want to compare us to to other societies.. I always felt we had higher standards... But I do think, and it is no offense to anybody here. that it is PC and chic to blow off things like this, rather than try to learn the causes and try to prevent them in the future.. Just my evolutionary thoughts. Coug

To: jbe who wrote (47885)	7/30/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

I have to agree with you. For what I believe are two basic reasons. 1. The media is always blamed for this, and often too glibly, but it is hard to believe that we can watch movie after movie, TV show after TV show, of killings, rapes, mutilations, and not be desensitized to the reality of violence. After all, we know intellectually that the actors get up after the end of the shot and are fine; there has to be some residual impact when we see real violence on TV to think that it is really not all that bad. 2. Most people in this country have never been directly touched by real violence. During our lifetimes our country has never been invaded by a foreign power (forgetting the Jap subs off California and a few Germans who snuck ashore in New England, but did no damage). A few of us experience violence directly, through auto accidents, terror acts such as Columbine and Oklahoma City, but for most of us that is still just more pictures. The reality of violence never comes home to us. So we can watch pictures of bombing in Serbia and killing in Kosovo and be moved, but from theoretical rather than direct knowledge.