113. SIMULATED HORROR - Is It OK To Spend Your Free Time Plotting Imaginary Violence?

March 21, 2022 by DaN McKee in Culture, Death, Ethics, Free, Mental Health, Militarisation, Music, Movies, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Technology, War

“A student asked me my thoughts on children playing violent video games. My first response was to ask him why he thought it mattered that the players were children. Why not adults playing violent video games too?“

March 21, 2022 /DaN McKee

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62. THE HORROR - Is It Rational To Enjoy Scaring Ourselves?

November 02, 2020 by DaN McKee in Culture, Death, Epistemology, Meaning, Movies, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, Pop Culture

“as I curl up with another scary story and find myself predictably sleepless later on, trembling at familiar creaks made new, and far more sinister, by the unsettling images now in my head, I wonder: with horror so real and ever-possible why do we indulge in the self-harm of scaring ourselves intentionally, at Halloween or any other time?“

November 02, 2020 /DaN McKee

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ignore this :-)