Desensitized?

[Icingdeath]

Recently a teacher of mine brought in a tape of a cartoon. My class was to watch this tape, and write down every violent action we saw in this particular cartoon. When the tape was finished, our teacher asked us to tell her what we had written down. Only a few of us had more than one written down, a majority of us had written nothing at all. My teacher then went to name off the various acts of violence, however mild, to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We scoffed at this and laughed. We thought our teacher was just...y'know, a sissy or something. After this class was over, I got to thinking. Maybe we thought this way because we were, in fact, desensitized. We see this stuff so much that we really don't register it any more. I know there's been a lot of discussion about this, but this was just my own personal experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meh, I've always been one to handle violence and all that jazz rather well, I have a pretty mild temper and I do in fact know what's right and what is wrong. But I have noticed that perhaps yes, I am a bit desensitized to all this violent stuff that goes on around me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss?

[WutangFlu]

the Army uses graphic video games to desensitize its soldiers...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and to be honest, im a gamer.. and i could easily believe that.

[Celt23]

No you aren't disensitized, I agree on you on that teacher being a bit overreactive.

[Defender2516]

Recently a teacher of mine brought in a tape of a cartoon. My class was to watch this tape, and write down every violent action we saw in this particular cartoon. When the tape was finished, our teacher asked us to tell her what we had written down. Only a few of us had more than one written down, a majority of us had written nothing at all. My teacher then went to name off the various acts of violence, however mild, to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We scoffed at this and laughed. We thought our teacher was just...y'know, a sissy or something. After this class was over, I got to thinking. Maybe we thought this way because we were, in fact, desensitized. We see this stuff so much that we really don't register it any more. I know there's been a lot of discussion about this, but this was just my own personal experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meh, I've always been one to handle violence and all that jazz rather well, I have a pretty mild temper and I do in fact know what's right and what is wrong. But I have noticed that perhaps yes, I am a bit desensitized to all this violent stuff that goes on around me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe because you have been desensitized? :lol: \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

[lawrencekill]

Can you name some violent things your teacher said about the video and maybe we can judge?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think your teacher is just overreactive from your point of view.

[Faux]

Desensitized? If you compare your generation to his, then yes, your generation would be considered as 'desnsitized.' But because of how society has become more adaptive to modern times, the things that you know might just be considered normal.

[Zonorhc]

It's a freaking cartoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If that teacher put you in a stadium and made you watch someone actually being torn to pieces by a pack of wolves, no amount of video game violence will prepare you for that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find it laughable when people say they're able and willing to kill someone if told to do so, just because they play a lot of Counter Strike.

[lawrencekill]

It's a freaking cartoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If that teacher put you in a stadium and made you watch someone actually being torn to pieces by a pack of wolves, no amount of video game violence will prepare you for that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find it laughable when people say they're able and willing to kill someone if told to do so, just because they play a lot of Counter Strike.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's easy to talk, it's hard to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TBH, zonorhc is right. IT IS a cartoon. Why are you analyzing it for flaws, it's suppose to be enjoyed and laughed at and sometimes with fake violence? Unless this is film as literature class...

[Bubsa]

What cartoon was it, by the way?

[vixjade]

Bubsa beat me to it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was it slapstick type violence Tom and Jerry (hitting with frying pans etc) or Itchy and Skratchy (cuts off head with big whizzing chainsaw)?

[____]

I'm hoping it was a Happy Tree Friends clip :mrgreen:

[T-Roach]

RAB >>> HTF

[Tigra00]

the Army uses graphic video games to desensitize its soldiers...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and to be honest, im a gamer.. and i could easily believe that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I see nothing violent about this man's sig.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep...Bashing your head into a wall is perfectly normal.

[Icingdeath]

It was one of those old ones they used to have when I was like 6 or 7...can't quite remember. I think it was perhaps Bugs Bunny. I know these cartoons are made for children and are good-natured and such, but it does portray quite a bit of what we would label as violence, even for a cartoon. Our teacher mainly wanted us to point out the hitting, shooting, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am inclined to believe that maybe yes, my teacher was exageratting. But overall, I do believe people are becoming desensitized. I honestly could care less, if people go around killing and hurting others, then they were messed up to begin with. But I just found this interesting.

[Rebdragon]

He should have shown Tom&Jerry :lol: .

[Will H]

It sounds something like Tom and Jerry, but I see your point. I believe that the youngest working (That includes students) generation defines our culture and society, so that means that in fact your teacher is oversenitized, and we are just normal. :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We live in a world of political correctness, and I vow to banish it wherever it crosses the line of ridiculous. O:) And please, don't ask me where that line lies, because we will go into political correctness again. Just...don't. -.-