THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGAINST
SICKENING IMAGES AND MENTAL PICTURES
There ought to be a law
against exposing people to sickening photos and descriptions for the express
purpose of shocking them.
There ought to be a law
against submitting people to the mental and emotional distress of seeing
horrific pictures or exposing them to horrific descriptions that become
indelible memories and often scar us emotionally for years, even for life.
I remember as a child I
suffered from this horribly. People would talk about all kinds of violent and
traumatizing things in my presence and my young imagination would be ignited
and I would get burnt - bad. TV would give me night horrors.
Why is it OK for papers
to publish photos that, even if one doesn't read the paper and the eye falls on
them perchance, leave one sickened?
Why is it OK for someone
to write some of the stuff that Snopes refutes and
send it around the net for countless millions to be sickened by and have the
mental picture in one's mind forever?
I call that assault and
battery. I call that exposing people to toxic waste.
There are sites for
people who like all kind of sick stuff. Let the people who want that go there,
just like people who like physical violence can go to wrestling matches.
And leave the rest of
our psyches alone!
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,