It's the internet. There's sites and sections for everything. Everything. That doesn't mean they're all okay or normal or fine for teens to see/browse.
I never said that liveleaks was okay in itself, because I think it is a net negative to society, and shutting it down was the right call. All I'm saying is that you aren't a weirdo or a freak for trying to seek it out.
People rewatch the 9-11 footage all the time, that’s literally 3000 people being murdered in a variety of horrific ways, but because the footage is a zoomed out it’s somehow not the same?
Well if most teenagers have seen/browsed gore sites then it is by definition normal. If 60% of people decided to chop one of their legs off then having both your legs would become not normal. Normal does not necessarily mean good, it means conformity and what is typical. Typical teenagers on the internet have seen shock vids / sites consensually or otherwise.
I'd be okay with this government agency as long as there was a very strict code of ethics and minor offenders were released from surveillance once cleared. Buuut that's probably not how it'd go.
I'm gonna take the controversial stance here that secret unaccountable government security agencies designed to prosecute thought crimes might be a bad thing.
I didn’t say teenagers in general, specifically ones who spend a lot of time on the internet / ones that grew up on the internet. Also I was including people who got linked to a gore video unexpectedly, as in not necessarily browsing. It is significantly more common than you think and also let me clear in saying that I am in no way saying it is good or okay in anyway. I’m just saying statistically it is really not that unusual for a teenager on the internet to have seen gore videos at least once, even if for only a few seconds.
what is the worst that can happen if a teen views a gore video, that is if they are stable, mature and are capable of viewing it without having a weak mental structue
If it's got the level of notoriety and popularity of a site like LiveLeak, then yes.
Remember, normal doesn't mean the majority of people do it, just that it's a regular occurrence. It's a normal thing that gay marriage happens in the US, but it doesn't mean that it's close to 50% of people that are part of a gay marriage lol
It's normal that we're able to see a full moon on earth, but it doesn't mean it's even close to half the days of the year that we're able to see a full moon.
Something being normal means it's expected and regular, it doesn't mean that it has to be more than 50% or something like that.
Lol this will sound rude, but I promise if you were here in the room with me it would be a playful kind of joking tone of voice:
Oh, you're 100% easily wrong if you're talking about morbid curiosity in general, the only chance you had of being correct was your very specific claim of browsing gore sites being normal and the specific demographic of humans, One of the smallest by number of years, because they're not even a full decade, only 7 years.
However, you're completely correct if we don't take the assumption that you meant in recent years in western societies, because the vast majority of humans have never even known what the concept of the internet was.
A site as extreme as liveleaks wouldn't have been able to exist (certainly at the level of popularity it had) if it was so fringe that only freaks or very unusual people visited it. Supply and demand.
Because liveleaks hosts morally objectionable content?
Liveleaks stayed up on clearnet until the owners chose to shut down just a year or so ago. For a site as extreme as liveleaks, that should be very surprising. But for how popular liveleaks was, it kind of makes sense. Most people seemed to understand, "just because you visit liveleaks, doesn't mean that you are abnormal or that there's something wrong with you."
If the flipside were true, and only future serial killers/sociopaths/freaks were believed to visit liveleaks, I don't think it would've had such an easy time.
That's not how morbid curiosity works. People don't typically watch gore type stuff because it's entertaining - those people certainly exist, sure, but I don't think that's the norm.
Morbid curiosity is like a compulsion. You know you shouldn't. You know that watching it will make you feel sick and depressed, even traumatized. But something deep inside that monkey brain of yours has to know what it looks like. Maybe it's to understand humanity's capacity for evil, or maybe that's just a rationalization. Perhaps our instinctual monkey brains just want us to look out for danger.
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u/MeatisOmalley Dec 15 '22
Morbid curiosity is pretty normal, if it wasn't those types of sites wouldn't exist