Does seeing cruelty online affect you?

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By seeing cruelty, I mean in the form of images, animated GIFs and videos of people being cruel and violent, people being cruel to animals, animals attacking other animals, racial violence etc etc.

We're all internet savvy and I'm sure you all understand how easy it is to come across images of violence. Whether that be through through social media channels, message boards or browsing for giggles or out of interest.

For me, animal cruelty is a big one. Over the years I've seen so many images and videos on message boards, facebook etc of animals being brutally killed or harmed and it causes me some concealed issues inside. For example, recently I seen a woman setting a dog on fire. Previously I've seen such acts as dogs being skinned alive, a mouse/rat being blended alive(some might laugh, I don't) and a dog being thrown from a tower block.

I'm not soft by any means, generally said to have very little visible emotions, I don't get upset or get angry but this affects me in a way I can't explain, these images ingrained in my head seem to.. haunt me, for lack of a better way to put it. A sick feeling to my stomach whenever I'm reminded or happen to accidentally stumble across something similar.

Can anyone relate to this?
 
I don't get hung up on it and/or it doesn't haunt me but it does make me sad to see how little removed from the savage much of the human race really are.
 
no, unless very graphic..

no more than reading the depressing threads on here about the economy.

it only directly affects me in that if i find out where its happened.. say Brazil as a good example, i wont go on holiday there.

I've only ever lost sleep over human torture ive watched, i feel differently about animals, the bad things that happen to them are sickening but i dont lose sleep even though it does make me feel sick..
 
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Some very graphic videos I've watched have affected me. The mexican chainsaw one I couldn't get off my mind for a few days. Saw a video of a dog being set on fire and another of them throwing one off a building, those 2 got me extremely angry and if it wasn't for my curiosity I wouldn't have watched them.

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows though I guess.
 
Zbornak said:
Animals getting hurt seems to effect me a lot more than humans getting hurt. Anyone else get this?
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Im with you on that one. I can only assume it comes from all the years of violence on TV and Movies, kind of leaves you desensitized to human suffering. Not completely of course, some things are very hard to watch, others more easy but seeing for example someone's brains blown out in a movie doesn't make me bat an eyelid. :eek:

Kind of scary when you really think about it...
 
Just don't go looking for them surely?? I know those videos would not sit well with me so I don't watch them. I can't remember the last time someone tricked me into watching something I didn't want to.
 
Zbornak said:
Animals getting hurt seems to effect me a lot more than humans getting hurt. Anyone else get this?
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Yup, I wouldn't count myself as an animal lover although I do have cats, but I'm conscious that humans can do horrible things to each other and I think it's somehow more immoral to do that to an animal that doesn't have the same awareness.

We put systems in place to help like social workers, charities, NGO's but ultimately these fail under their own weight.

It's always been a marker in psychology, in that if you can torture an animal then you are quite capable of doing the same to a human.
 
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Seeing someone hurt an animal definitely affects me more than seeing humans getting hurt. Regardless of what video I come across, it won't bother me at all unless it's an animal.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Seeing someone hurt an animal definitely affects me more than seeing humans getting hurt. Regardless of what video I come across, it won't bother me at all unless it's an animal.
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Really? Try watching the video of the russian soldiers being executed in a field and one of them crying for his mother before they slit his throat, really ****** me up :(

This planet is messed up, I need to curb my curiosity.
 
Mickie said:
it only directly affects me in that if i find out where its happened.. say Brazil as a good example, i wont go on holiday there.
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Are you saying that you will rule out visiting any country if there have been reports of cruelty therein? If so, good luck visiting anywhere.
 
It does but on the other hand it shows what some humans are really like. Once you've seen a dog get set on fire, pig decapitated or someone executed in the most grueling way possible it makes you think how bad we can be. Most people living in their little fluffy bubble probably don't even realise this stuff happens in the world. Ignorance is bliss after all.
 
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