That doesn't matter. The less than conscious mind cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. This goes for all visual data we take in through our eyes as well. Yes you are correct noone is ever upset directly at what a movie did for what it displays it is always tied to something else in the viewers past or present // looping back to my previous post. relatable. Including but not limited to memory / past experiences, belief systems, core parts of what makes a human, human and others.Yeah, and so do I, but these weren't animals, they were pixels in the shape of animals.
I would say the upset person is not upset directly by the movie, they are reminded of their own experience and upset by that.
If OP saw the animals hurt in the game and this reminded OP about the fact that animals are hurt in real life, or a time in her life that she witnessed them being hurt, and that upset her, then that totally makes sense.
Judging by some of these posts, I don't see how boycotting or hitting them would suddenly be an overreaction, if morality is the same virtual or not.
Sure, maybe OP saw something traumatic involving animals at a young age or something. But i fail to see how someone who cares for animals, who would cry when an animal is being abused has something wrong with them. It's not like she's having panic attacks or hurting anyone.
She's here to see what we think if she was overreacting or not. Not here because any visual data depicting animal cruelty wrecks her life.
There's a pretty big gap between crying or being sad, having a transient emotional reaction that will pass. and actively forming a group and going after a company that allows it's players to abuse animal characters in game, for months on end. Even though that's not the focus of the game and the game just allows players to do almost whatever they want in it. Or... physically attacking someone over it.
When you're sad that's on you, in you, doesn't negatively impact anyone else.
Violence? Smashing your head over something you did in a game which could leave permanent damage? Ya... huge difference... over reaction.
"It's just pixels".
Did you have a tamagotchi as a kid?
Did you cry when it died?
At what level of pixel density does it no longer become "just pixels"?
If a recovering coke addict saw a pixelated cartoon do a line what happens in their mind and body?
If you were flipping through channels and came across a brief scene of a graphic documentary which shows how millions of animals are "farmed" and slaughtered would you cry? Probably not. Most are insanely desensitized. But someone that cares about animals likely would have an emotional reaction.
Is that documentary also "just pixels" on a screen?