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Re: Why is cockfighting bad?
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:23:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Most everyone I know want to see the cool weapons, the cool
starfighters, the cool battles, and the cool bad guys.  How is this not
entertainment based upon the suffering of others?
Certainly a part of the entertainment value can be described as being based
on the suffering of some, but you're aware that Star Wars is fiction, right?

What the--?!  No one told me that before!  Do you have proof?  I demand
proof!  ;-)

Don't you believe it.  He probably want's you to give up on the tooth fairy
too.

obofftopicposit:  If violence is shown with more negative results, then it
would serve a more useful function (as a deterrent) within entertainment,
rather than just be glorified eye candy.

I agree with this lots and lots.

Chris



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  Re: Why is cockfighting bad?
 
(...) What the--?! No one told me that before! Do you have proof? I demand proof! ;-) (...) Well, I concede that cockfighting as a real-life event is much worse than Star Wars as a fictional story. However, the original debate was comparing Pokemon (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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