08-20-2014, 10:25 PM
Not when the images are on Youtube. I agree with crue. It's great to think that adults can access stuff that they protect their kids from seeing, but Youtube is teenager feeding grounds and kids know it better than 90% of adults. When you make graphic images available for the world to see, you make them available to children. Even if parents could censor their kids properly, there's millions of adults that aren't that good at parenting.
I think it's on media outlets to censor themselves tho. The family's right to privacy ends at them not being bombarded with images of their son's death. Having the video available for people that look for it is not the same thing. I doubt his parents are scouring the net looking for it. The Twitter tidbit is weird to me, but tbh I don't know their graphic images policy. There's some truth to the "don't watch it because you're giving the terrorists what they want" argument... but not watching it wouldn't stop them.
At the same time, I object to using it as motivation to hate terrorists. I'm not some pacifist, but the same way I think the guy administering a lethal injection shouldn't hate the criminal he's killing... I don't think soldiers should hate the people they're fighting. Stopping terrorist organizations is an important duty for the world to undertake, but when you hate the people you're fighting, that's when soldiers start raping women and children and bombing civilian's homes.
I think it's on media outlets to censor themselves tho. The family's right to privacy ends at them not being bombarded with images of their son's death. Having the video available for people that look for it is not the same thing. I doubt his parents are scouring the net looking for it. The Twitter tidbit is weird to me, but tbh I don't know their graphic images policy. There's some truth to the "don't watch it because you're giving the terrorists what they want" argument... but not watching it wouldn't stop them.
At the same time, I object to using it as motivation to hate terrorists. I'm not some pacifist, but the same way I think the guy administering a lethal injection shouldn't hate the criminal he's killing... I don't think soldiers should hate the people they're fighting. Stopping terrorist organizations is an important duty for the world to undertake, but when you hate the people you're fighting, that's when soldiers start raping women and children and bombing civilian's homes.