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Accidents for your viewing pleasure, is it not a little disturbing?

Asked by Berserker (33548points) July 22nd, 2015

I got bored yesterday and went on YouTube and typed in “crazy video”. First result was stuff caught on dash cameras, and one thing was a boeing crashing. It literally exploded as it crashed. I only thought that happened in movies. The suggested videos after were all similar things, airplane, car, boat and train crashes caught by people at the right time.
Now this is nothing new, this stuff is all over the internet if one desires to see it. Videos of people getting hurt and killed. And of course, not just accidents like what I described.

A lot of this is shown on the news too, but what do you guys think about compilation videos of such things? People get hurt and killed, and this is on YouTube for us to view, to satisfy morbid curiosity and then give likes (or dislikes) to. Do you find it a tad disturbing that people can get a kick out of watching this stuff? Or get a kick out of making such videos? Do you think it’s a lack of respect for those who died in what one was watching?

I’m actually kind of a wuss. I love gore, death and murder…in fiction. I get disturbed seeing it for real, or at least videos of such things. Not so much what I see rather than knowing I just saw a bunch of people die. I don’t have anything against the videos being put up. I mean, it’s legal, people do what they want, I just find it kind of morbid. It can be informative at times; you can tell the difference between a video showing this stuff to inform the viewer and one that seeks to entertain.

So what is your opinion of such videos being available en masse? Any kind, like accidents, animal attacks, people getting beat up, natural disaster footage, etc.

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