Wise man - I am fairly sure the devil invented beetroot. Or Delia Smith - one of those manifestations of evil, anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Wise man - I am fairly sure the devil invented beetroot. Or Delia Smith - one of those manifestations of evil, anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Anyway, isn't that just yet another red herring? When was the last time anybody in Europe had a proper vote on capital punishment? Perhaps people's views would change if the television news always made a point of showing real crime scenes and what-have-you in all its graphic detail, the way they try to do in television drama; see how "entertaining" people find it then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Maybe we'd all be surprised, or more likely not. Could it be that it's too easy, morally, to be against judicial killing when people are never fully confronted with the real-life actions of the people they're saving from the chair. Who knows, having to explain these things to one's children might add a different flavour to one's morality. I don't see how hiding and sheltering from moral difficulties makes one a better person.#fakenews
I find it odd that people go mad for zombies or whatever fictional brutality in the name of entertainment and then go all coy and moral and squeamish when ISIS posts its latest hits on Youtube. I don't know these people, the poor victims, anyway so they're no more or less real to me than MacBeth or your aunt's canary. So, what difference does it make.
Oh, same here. It's just a dressing for the fish, a catalyst for change, as it were.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
It never works though, of course.