When I first heard about this, I felt sick to my stomach. After reading such posts here as SJ's (whom I believe is on to something here), I got to thinking. Are we, as a people, moving in that direction, generally? Has anyone heard of/watched extreme fighting? What about today's "action" movies? The general destruction of people and things. Has our civilization really come to think of this as the norm? I think the younger generation (generations in my case
) have become desensitized, to a larger or lesser degree, since I was a kid. My son has given us action/dramatic movies he thinks are great...the "die hard" type of thing. Honestly, we can't watch them. Too violent and graphic! Even with the latest Superman movie, my husband and I watched it in three increments. It was, I think, one of the best animated movies of its kind, but overwhelming too, at times. Also, my husband, who used to watch boxing when he was younger (which for my taste, was/is very violent) can't stomach watching extreme fighting. Too "no holds barred" type of fighting...someone surely will be killed (if no one has died already) participating in this "sport". If we've come this far in our 400 or 500 hundred years of "civilization", what the future holds as far as entertainment goes, is scarry to me. And to use animals in this horrendous way...unfathomable! There have, unfortunately, always been people who abuse animals...and people who abuse people, but this, to me, seems to be more and more the case. In certain genres (violent, graphic movies, extreme fighting, football (where people have been killed), hockey (where people have been killed), etc., etc.), it is accepted, by and large, as "sport" or at least pleasurable. I just don't get it!