Your attempted mockery by oversimplification fails.
Widespread pornography and the acceptance thereof is both a symptom and a contributing cause of the ongoing coarsening, degradation, and dehumanization of our popular culture. Animalistic behavior, including casual resort to violence, are a predictable result of a degraded, dehumanized culture. Pornography, in isolation, did not cause that jerk to murder his classmates. Pornography, along with widely accepted: violent entertainment, vulgar and abusive entertainment, promiscuity, abortion, atheism, socialism, and other similar factors combine to form a culture which is a psychological toxic waste dump. One should hardly be surprised to find casual violence in such an environment.
” Pornography, along with widely accepted: violent entertainment, vulgar and abusive entertainment, promiscuity, abortion, atheism, socialism, and other similar factors combine to form a culture which is a psychological toxic waste dump. “
Maybe so, but the kid shot those students because he is certifiably crazy.
Biologically bat sh!t crazy. He would have been just as crazy in Victoria’s England. Or, modern Iran.
I have heard no rational person ascribe this shooting to the “coarsening of our culture”.
If we need to eradicate something, we should eradicate this type of person.
Thrill seekers were once those rare breeds that climbed the mountains, jumped from plains and hiked deserts, now they focus on a screen to play a game, get likes & approval and devope deviant kinks.
BINGO. I was composing a similar answer in my head, and you did it much better than I was about to. It all boils down to who we are becoming, thanks to what we think and do.
Thanks, NorthMountain.