Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

War is entirely different when it goes from "Jimmy heard that bombs were dropped on a hospital" to "here is a hospital where bombs are dropped. Here are the people trying to pull family members and the dead out of the rubble. Here is a cat feasting on the remains of a deceased person because there's no food in the area. Here is a man throwing the body parts of his child into a duffel bag so that he can bury them according to his religious customs."

War is a neat little 3 letter word. The brutality that war inflict should be mandatory viewing so that we know what engaging them costs regular people.



It's different, but is it beneficial?


Of course it is.

Everyone should learn how the sausage is made. It makes it far more difficult to brainwash you with jingoism later on.


I have absolutely no scientific basis for this, so take my take with a giant grain of salt, but I would be afraid it desensitizes people to violence or just traumatizes them, especially if they're kids. There's a reason you don't show the new Evil Dead movie with a zombie using a cheese grates people's eyes to children.


People, that means the kids parents, are not voting for horrific zombie enabling politicians, but it’s in their hands to stop supporting the war-hawks.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: