Air Show Crash in Poland

akaFlyboy 4 said:
Is this a real statement by someone? "I can't get enough replays of the September 11 footage, either. The more people I get to see die, the better!"
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I think that if that were on this forum, there'd have been :sarcasm: tag on the end. The point was that people are like the song "Dirty Laundry": "It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

People are attracted to the truly morbid. Go figure....
 
Fly4Pay said:
I think that if that were on this forum, there'd have been :sarcasm: tag on the end. The point was that people are like the song "Dirty Laundry": "It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

People are attracted to the truly morbid. Go figure....
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Yes - that.
 
Fly4Pay said:
I think that if that were on this forum, there'd have been :sarcasm: tag on the end. The point was that people are like the song "Dirty Laundry": "It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

People are attracted to the truly morbid. Go figure....
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It's affective versus cognitive response - typically stimuli that appeal to our affective (emotional) senses receive a greater response. That's why political candidates use exacerbated emotional appeals versus hard facts in their campaign ads. Two empty planes colliding doesn't appeal to our emotion - it's just the destruction of lifeless objects. Throw in human lives, however, and now there's an emotional connection. It's not that we're evil, it's just that we find information more appealing if we have some reason to feel an emotional response from it.

Psychologist hat off. :)
 
Murdoughnut said:
It's affective versus cognitive response - typically stimuli that appeal to our affective (emotional) senses receive a greater response. That's why political candidates use exacerbated emotional appeals versus hard facts in their campaign ads. Two empty planes colliding doesn't appeal to our emotion - it's just the destruction of lifeless objects. Throw in human lives, however, and now there's an emotional connection. It's not that we're evil, it's just that we find information more appealing if we have some reason to feel an emotional response from it.

Psychologist hat off. :)
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If someone gets their rocks off by watching people dying, yes that is evil. I don't care what psychiatry says. Plain and simple.
 
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