Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Yes I made the decision to post “war porn” as you succinctly put it, but with caveats warning people and avoiding linking it directly so it wouldn’t automatically display in the thread and I feel rightly so, why you may ask, well…..
As with the naked child with napalm burns running down a Vietnam road or the soldier executed by pistol shot on the streets of Saigon or the burnt corpse in the truck as the Iraqi’s fled Kuwait, these have to be seen to show the world that War isn’t the A Team where they spray machine gun fire and no one gets killed, but it is a horrific and brutal and is not the sanitised rubbish you see on mainstream TV.
The sooner mankind wakes up to the fact that we are the only species on this planet that kills for “sport / fun” and recognises war in its bestial form gets you exactly nowhere, then perhaps we will learn from it and adapt.
So if posting a lone soldier dying in a stream for one maniacs rantings opens the eyes, then we all maybe see a glimmer of light at the end of a very long tunnel and his death though terribly sad, may be a small step towards ending it all..
If I have offended I apologise, but far worse is being committed against the innocents of this world such as Ukrainian Women and Children as I type.…
I'm always uneasy when, prior to showing a clip of disaster/war/accident footage on the TV news, we are warned that some viewers might find the content upsetting. So what? We should be upset and we should watch. So much of the world suffers on a daily basis, but so much of it lives in a cocoon where the worst experience to befall them might be a train cancellation (leaves on the line, staff shortages, industrial action) making them late for work. The images that Nutty instances are ingrained in our consciences simply because they remain as shocking as the first time we witnessed them, to which I might add the scenes of Buchenwald when liberated by UK Forces. Keep up the good work, Nutty, though it is ironic that much of your audience has rather more idea of the reality of war than most.
Did I watch the clip? No, Does that undermine all that I have said? Probably. War is obscene, images of it are obscene, but we need to remind ourselves of the obscenity involved. How we do that is a personal decision but we must always be aware of the obscenity.