I've been catching the news at all hours of the day lately and it never fails...there's Saddam with a noose on his neck!

Why do you suppose that it makes sense to the "powers that be" that a hanging is suitable television at any hour and on any channel, and yet we've darted clear back to the fifties in what we now see/hear (TV and radio) of a sexual content since the unveiling of Janet's [ugly] boob?

In essense...why is killing and death more acceptable than sexiness and the human body?

Just had to ask out loud!

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People fed a healthy diet of sex (which is only partially sated by titilation, which is what the seconds of boob was) are happy people, and happy people are hopeful people, and hopeful people feel they have the power to do something about how the government is fucking them. It's Orwellian.

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LixyChick,

Violence on television is socially acceptable, sex much less so. Consider children's animated cartoons - Tom & Jerry are the poster children.

An reality of our society.

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beats the hell outta me, unless we want to get into another debate about religious influence.

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I wish the networks were as quick to broadcast infamous boobs as they are in televising this rubbish.

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Good point, Lixy!

I purposely avoid videos of the hanging. I don't care about anyone's opinion about the man but to view his death over & over is truly disturbing. I'd hate to have to explain it to a child.

An opinion....just an opinion
I guess our moral beliefs throughout History has always been rooted in religion....where it is "ok" kill your one neighbors wife for murder(eye for an eye) but a sin to swap partners with your other neighbor.

I don't know, this one perplexes me

I am also getting tired of all the show with the "Life and Times of Saddom ...". As for the pics, no telling about some people's taste, myself I just turn to a different channel

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One of the good things about watching erotica and porn is that there's no pictures of Saddam to be seen in the viewin'.

Jest ONE of the good things, mind you.

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Very good point, IK.

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*adding "Orwellian" to my vocabulary*

I have to say...I KNOW there is an entire version of the hanging on the net somewhere but I will not ever look at it! I never looked at the beheading vids and I will not view this either.

Here's my warped line of thinking...

I hate bees, wasps, hornets and the like...but I can't kill them and I can't watch as my husband kills them either. I'm not against them being killed if they are too close to home and endanger me or my family, but I don't need to see the deed to know it's done. I HATE seeing a living being in one instant and that life snuffed in the blink of an eye...no matter what lifeform it is!

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more offended by witnessing killing or dying and seeing the dead afterward than I am about viewing a naked human life/body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even watch National Geographic when they show the lions hunting on the Serengetti (sp?)...or whatever may be hunting whatever. I turn away or turn it off. Why the fuck would I want to see a man hanged??????

*SHUDDER*

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^^^ she just wants to see men that are hung

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^^^ that, or watching them being smothered to death between her thighs when she locks them in place during orgasm!

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I have pondered this since I read your thread this morning. The only logical conclusion IS that "killing and death more acceptable than sexiness and the human body" to the "powers that be".

I am unaware of any guideline, regulation or law that has hampered ANY conviction held by thses powers.

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