Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Dexter connection

[quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="Zsenipoo"]Maybe your <i>law</i> classes have desensitized you into thinking that unhip personas are morally equivalent to <i>serial murdering</i>. Zseni - fuddy duddy old stuck in the mud Zseni - disagrees.[/quote] Oh. I haven't been keeping up with the detective shows lately. They ALL have serial killers as protagonists these days? I thought by messed-up detectives you were talking about shows like Monk. [quote]I didn't bring specifically Law And Order in; I brought in shows about the exercise of law and order. That's why I used the IP-friendly lower case. And all of those shows talk about how SOMEONE is horribly fucked up one way or another. They show fucked up activities by definition. Because crime is fucked up![/quote] So you cover your eyes every time Joe Pesci and that other guy show up in "Home Alone" because they're burglars and... and... THOSE SICK FUCKS! [quote]I'm not arguing that trying to prevent and solve crime is grody; I'm trying to say that I just don't even understand why you would check that shit out in your free time. I consider the TV watcher's interest in crime dramas to be overweening and unhealthy, and I think the shows themselves skew people's perceptions of the world around them in unhelpful ways. One such way, my innocent friend, is in the passage of crazy-ass three strikes laws. Or to take another tack: people have saved themselves from drowning in capsizing cars because of methods presented in <i>Mythbusters</i>. Have rape rates dropped at all concurrent with the airing of Rape And Order episodes?[/quote] A few years ago I decided to give anime a chance and rented all the biggies: Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D. They were all a cavalcade of violent grotesquery drawn by freaks with an unhealthy obsession with showing people's faces exploding and splattering in lovingly rendered detail. [quote][quote]Were there sadism in Silence of the Lambs?[/quote] GET YOUR SHIT OFF OF MY MOUNTAIN POSTHASTE. You're either being mindbogglingly stupid or you don't know how to identify cruelty when you see it, though I suppose we could consider that a survival tactic in your case. These arguments always devolve into people trying to persuade me that the sadistic shit they enjoy isn't <i>really</i> sadistic, because they (the people making the argument) aren't sadists! QED! One of the nicest things about Certain Posters is that they don't struggle with this issue at all: they'll make a case on the points that I'm wrong <i>and</i> they're sadists. I wish you would just go with that idea rather than trying to redeem <i>The Silence Of The Fucking Lambs</i> to Zseni - an argument that you are not now, nor will you ever be, clever enough to push.[/quote] You use this word "sadism" all the time. I do not think it means what you think it means.[/quote]