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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (171583)9/30/2005 5:52:24 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 281500
 
Did you ever read the book Virtual War? That was exactly one of the premises of that book- that it is much easier to kill in a removed way, than hand to hand- and that democracy suffers when the information on the killing is basically shrouded in the language of technocrats (or concealed completely)- since long distance killing often does not have press witnesses.

It was a good book. I haven't read it for a long time- but the ideas in it were intriguing.

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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (171583)9/30/2005 6:36:10 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 281500
 
My point was only that people are people and barbarism isn't limited to one country or one religion or one ethnicity.

I think it was the photographs. Just as with Abu Ghraib, it's the photographs that shock people into caring about what is going on. If we don't see a photo or a video, does it even exist for us?


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