[ SECRET POST #5042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It is fake. That is how. Just like watching someone die in a movie isn't the same as watching someone die in real life.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I don't even know how to start counting the number of people I've shot and killed in video games. But I have no desire to even hold a gun IRL.

[(Anonymous)]

Ding, ding, ding.

It isn't real. We all know it isn't real.

While I'm sure there's a percentage of horror fans who would still be into it if it were real, I'm gonna take a leap and say that most of us enjoy it because it isn't. Most people, I imagine, who like horror wouldn't enjoy the real thing and would be equally as disgusted.

I mean... come on, my dude.

[(Anonymous)]

I think some people (like me and maybe OP), just have a such a strong empathetic response to media so that, even though we know things aren't real, our emotional responses and empathy with the characters mean we are upset watching them suffer.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but seconding this very strongly. The fact that it isn't real is kind of irrelevant when it come to the empathetic response I have to fiction. A movie is not an abstracted, hypothetical thought experiment for me. It's a vicarious empathetic experience.

I think the conflict comes from the fact that neither side really understands the other, and often, neither side even realizes the other exists.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I can't stand seeing real blood, it makes me feel nauseous.

But fake blood? That doesn't bother me at all, because I know it's fake and no one is really getting hurt. I can watch stuff like Saving Private Ryan without being upset in the slightest since I know it's not real.

[(Anonymous)]

Weird example, since it depicts a real life event and there are a lot of WW2 veterans who had to leave the theater because it was so realistic...