Reminds me of that neuroscientist who was looking at signs of psychopathy in brains. He needed like 500 for the study and only had like 487 so he got some friends and family to give him theirs too. When the study was over and they went to unblind the results it turned out he had a psychopath brain. He was like,“in retrospect, a lot of the time I did wonder why other people found (x/y/z) so disturbing when it didn’t bother me at all.” Except nobody who’s ever actually worked with a neuroscientist was surprised at all.
Anon watches disturbing footage
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
It turns out a bunch of CEOs are lowkey psychopaths for exactly the reasons you state and idk that I like where that’s led us. I think the better answer is continually educating people on their both right and obligation to routinely engage in self political representation.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
OP grew up on Rotten/LuveLeak and it shows
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
you’ve been wanking to liveleak too much
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 hours ago
Yeah. I saw a news report once where they called footage disturbing and it was just a dude who later committed a crime walking down the street.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
A lot of it comes down to experience. For a senior paramedic, a multi-car crash with people screaming all around is probably just another Monday, while I do get quite disturbed by seeing things that are supposed to be inside the body. Not that I couldn’t stand blood, it’s just wrong, and sets of the same pre-historic monkey alarm bell as big spiders and unusual amounts of fecal matter.
While I believe you can learn to push through most of that, different people have different tolerances for different things at different times. Plus, “I can handle this” is different from “I enjoy watching this right now”. I would be pretty happy to have a gore warning when watching something while eating, for example. Or a warning about a super depressing story when I am feeling down anyway.
LegendaryBjork9972@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Some things just hurt to watch subconsciously and the feeling you get is numbness.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
People say those things to protect us, but meanwhile we are so used to seeing violence that we don’t care anymore.
XaetaCore@lemmy.neondystopia.world 9 hours ago
Honestly i have been exposed to so much gore and crazy shit at school in my teens online that i don’t feel anything anymore
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
It depends. What is the footage of? If you’re watching someone get attacked, murdered, and/or raped and you don’t feel sick to you stomach I’d say something is wrong with you. If you’re watching a city being attacked and you don’t see casualties of war I’d understand if you don’t sympathize because you’re only seeing buildings being destroyed not the humans are being affected. It’s hard for a lot of people to empathize unless they’ve gone through something similar. It’s still not great that you can’t put 2 and 2 together, but it’s not abnormal.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I watched the Kirk one and was honestly satisfied.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I felt absolutely nothing when I watched charlie Kirk get shot. Does that make me a bad person?
And I have never really seen many gore videos.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It gave me a jolt of joy and I won’t apologize for that.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
the only thing I felt was “huh. looks like some movies are indeed realistic”
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
To be honest, I understand being happy that someone who spread so much hate was murdered. This is a person who vehemently believed that gay and trans people shouldn’t exist. I completely understand the hatred of this man, but he is a human being and a sentient being. We really shouldn’t be supporting the murder of other humans even if we hate their views. I will concede however that that may be the only way out of the mess we’re in.
There are more of us than there are of them and yet we’re still under the control of those that hate us. If they won’t play by the rules then violence is the only option we have left. I’d much prefer the peaceful option if it were an option, and I hope that sanity will return to the US soon.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
What if they deserved it, like if someone was to execute trump on live TV?
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Depends on how dehumanized they are in your head.
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Again, we shouldn’t support the murder of anyone or anything even if they deserve it. Regardless, I won’t judge anyone who wants people like Trump and Charlie Kirk to disappear. Many of us are just fighting for our right to exist. Republicans hate minorities, trans, gay, and anyone different from them and they are using ICE to attack anyone they deem different.
I’d much prefer if Trump were removed from office dishonorably and we appointed someone who could return sanity to the US. However, I won’t judge anyone wishing death on those that want them dead and the power to make it so.
felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Oh boy don t make me dream like that
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 2 hours ago
As I’ve gotten older, videos that wouldn’t have elicited a reaction when I was a teen, I now find very unpleasant. I’m not sure why that is, but I do find it interesting.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t know how much of it is hormonal, but I think that testosterone does play a role in emotional processing, and I think that the levels teenage boys deal with is often enough to make some intense feelings difficult to access.
It could also be related to life experience and what you find relatable now vs then.