Christine Chubbuck Tape

It's not an opinion to say that shoving a traumatic recording in someone's face and demanding they relive their most terrible memory for your selfish benefit is unkind. (And believe me, I'm choosing my words as charitably as possible.)

Frankly, I think the amount of entitlement it takes to do a thing like that is nothing short of audacious. As if these people don't have lives or emotions of their own outside of what's convenient for you. Your nonchalant reaction to being called out on it speaks volumes as well.

Here's two opinions I *will* throw out though: the fact that, with all the fascinating culture there is to research, a distressing number of people choose to focus on a brief, grisly, well-described suicide video says a lot about human nature. (And none of it good.) I know Dycaite offered his reasons to keep the thread open a few posts ago but I think it's the wrong call. This thread is a magnet for attracting scumbags to our community who have no interest in preserving art, who just revel in filth and fling it at other people without a damn what it does to them.

Edit: I see you've since edited your post in an attempt to take the high ground, but I will go ahead and say you refuse to debate the ethics because deep down you know you have no leg to stand on. If the mods want to re-lock this thread or reprimand me for being argumentative about this, I don't care, it needs to be said.