“Each body was found in the same pose—on their knees with their hands joined at their front and head bowed as if in prayer. Left eye, left ear, and the tongue have been removed from each with surgical precision and placed in white boxes tied with black string and left at the victim’s side.
Y’know when you read a lot of books like this, how many people die, how they die, just seems to glaze over mine, & I’m sure most people’s minds, just another dead character.
I think that says something about us, I’m not exactly sure what, I’m pretty sure it’s not a positive reaction, to think of anyone real or not, dying in horrific pain & we just turn the page like it’s nothing.
Way back when, hell even now, they like/d to blame video games, pornography, certain music etc for altering teenagers (mostly) perceptions of reality & a lack of abhorrence at death & pain, especially in regards to other people.
I don’t see this as a cookie cutter issue, & it’s nothing like the overblown reactions in the 1950’s onwards about it, but I do think our society has become so used to certain things, that they no longer faze us as they did, as they should, it’s not saying much for our species, is it? :|
