There are things we should not watch.

I worry about what it is that we do to ourselves when we view videos of atrocity. It is terrible that that woman died, but I do not want to see it, and neither I think should you.

Why? Because nothing is gained from it. Yes, you are shocked, but you are also engaging in a rather macabre theatre, a pornography of death, if you will. And the sad thing is that your capacity to be shocked by the next such thing you see will diminish. Until the things we should never have seen cloud our perception of where the boundaries of right and wrong are.

I do not want to become the kind of person who can watch such things, because I think it is a step towards becoming a person who is capable of doing such things.