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[quote=Anonymous]I'm happy to see other people talking about this, and to have Jeff taking it seriously.

I'm somewhat bothered by the shock porn threads, and find that I can barely resist clicking on them and reading, and they inevitably end up making me feel depressed and dirty afterwards.  No one really benefits from reading about them, they just satisfy everyone's prurient, morbid, dark side.  But I can see how Jeff would say, how do you draw the line, and still have the 'freedom of expression' that makes this forum so great.

The fact is that you see a new thread popping up on the General Parenting forum almost every day about someone's crippling anxiety or depression, with dozens of people saying they feel the same way, and a lot of it seems to be related to fears of what could happen to your children, and sadness about all of the tragedy and horror around us.  My opinion is that this culture of fear and anxiety is created by, in part, things like obsessive posting of sick topics on the Off topic forum, and then people reading over and over again about the way your kids can be tortured, raped etc.  I'm NOT blaming society's ills on the Off topic forum.  I'm just saying that in some way, I think that reading about and being surrounded by 'shock porn' stories makes us all more anxious, more sad, more fearful.

I don't really know what to do about it but I agree w/ Jeff that the easiest thing to do is ignore the topic.  [/quote]

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