Last House on the Left question

[Despare]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

One of the things I love about it. I can explore the concept from various angles and dissect and really pay attention to why people behave as they do.

I understand that most people feel as you do - and I expliot that in an effort to turn it around, but people will ususally ignore any message that conflicts with their personal morality.

and as for experienceing it personally. A dear friend suffered terribly. Her father was murdered in Dallas when she was 14 years old. They caught the guy, convicted him and (being in Texas) gave him a rather speedy execution. My friend went with her mother to the execution thinking it would give them closure...

Steph still wakes up at night screaming. It ruined her marriage. The loss of her father was awful and something that can never be trivialised, but watching the execution has left her permanently scarred.

What if she had shown forgiveness and walked away only to find out that he was released on good behavior 20 years later? Would she feel safe? I feel there is justice, or at least a semblance of it, but justice doesn't mean it will erase everything that happened. Hell, justice doesn't even mean you'll feel "all better" afterward.

One of the definitions for justice is "the administering of deserved punishment or reward" so I guess what it comes down to is determining what the deserved punishment really is.

I don't think they should remake Last House on the Left. (again) ;)

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

One of the things I love about it. I can explore the concept from various angles and dissect and really pay attention to why people behave as they do.

I understand that most people feel as you do - and I expliot that in an effort to turn it around, but people will ususally ignore any message that conflicts with their personal morality.

and as for experienceing it personally. A dear friend suffered terribly. Her father was murdered in Dallas when she was 14 years old. They caught the guy, convicted him and (being in Texas) gave him a rather speedy execution. My friend went with her mother to the execution thinking it would give them closure...

Steph still wakes up at night screaming. It ruined her marriage. The loss of her father was awful and something that can never be trivialised, but watching the execution has left her permanently scarred.

I think if that situation (or any in life) had a cosmic point, it was that normal, helathy minded, decent people, are negatively affected by intentional killing. While putting the man to death may have been a good thing, watching it happen wasnt.

They talk about this kind of thing with regards to training soldiers. The human mind, at least a menatally healthy one, has to be reprogrammed in order to turn the person into a killer. They make killing a reflex, so that the soldier does not think about what they are doing. the idea is to protect their psyche from the damage caused by killing another human.

[Vodstok]

Yep, which is why the "Liberal Media" coverage of the Vietnam war made life so hard for the guys who came back. It was the first time people saw the "enemy" as people, and the poor bastards who were sent over there (most often against their will. gotta love the draft), ended up with sever PTSD because jusgle warfare is the absolute worst, especially when the enemy is an expert in it, only to come home and get shit on for it.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by urgeok

somehow this thread has become Last Platoon on the Left :p

that could work. A lot of parralel characters. Try to guess which guy from Last House is Sgt Barnes?