Avoiding the Graphic and the Violent
On January 13, 2021, Lisa Montgomery became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1953. Among the many macabre and abusive things Lisa was subjected and exposed to in her childhood, perhaps none was more horrible than when her mother, in full view of Lisa, crushed the head of a dog with a shovel. This one incident lodged somewhere deep in the psyche of Lisa would also become a factor, howsoever small, of what she would do years later. Many people don’t seem to understand how the exposure to violent and graphic content affects us. When little Ada was mauled to death by a leopard recently, the pictures of her mutilated body were carelessly and disrespectfully circulated all over the social media. Some people didn’t even realize what impact it might have on others, particularly on her parents. Each one of us must know that constant exposure to graphic content degrades our emotional response. If it continues over a period of time, desensitization sets i...