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nonetheless, I laugh every time I see that clip.  Of course, I enjoy slapstick, and that's basically what this is.  I suppose cartoons and the three stooges are violent too, but I really enjoy that sort of thing.  Anybody see the movie "Dodgeball?"  I never imagined seeing a guy get hit with a wrench could be so amusing.  The outakes on that movie are hilarious.  How about that Tom Hanks movie "Ladykillers?"  Something about a large black woman slapping the crap out of a young guy whilst scolding him is just inherently funny to me.  Again, the outtakes on that scene were too much.

As for real violence, the notion that growing consciousness takes us away from our natural tendency toward violence is a given.  That's why we have so many weak victims able to raise more weak children all the while building morals that protect them.  Overall it's progress, but along the way greater consciousness in a weak, inherently violent species leaves it vulnerable to more effect from less potent physical threats.  Where is this going?  The same way all other complex, large brained species went... the way of the dino. (imho)  But that's not all bad either, because we can certainly inhabit another species as we inhabit this one.  Maybe slapstick won't be funny to our next set of shells?  hmmmm, hard to imagine.

Bud, did you know that most women do not like the 3 Stooges and men love them.

But then I can't watch Animal Planet where the SPCA is picking up abused and tortured animals. I love Animal Planet but have to turn away when this comes on.

I won't watch violent movies anymore. They serve no purpose for me. BTW, the only thing I don't care for about Chuck Norris is his singing. LOL

Love, Mairlyn  

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Chuck sings?  oh my gosh, I can't imagine that's very pleasant!

Abusing and torturing animals is very evil in my book.  Poor animals are innocent like children.  I don't like it when they suffer either.  I suppose it wouldn't solve anything, but my first inclination is to commit some similar violence on the perpetrators.

I didn't know that about the stooges?!  Of course, I'm a guy, and oblivious to many things like that.  Now that I think about it, my wife never showed any interest in them at all.  makes sense.  I rather enjoy violent movies, but psychotic violence and war movies sometimes get to me and I bail.  I watched Rob Zombie's first major movie The Devil's Rejects, and I gotta say I was ashamed to be a human.  I like Rob, but he's a little too good at capturing our dark side. 

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Learning involves getting past "first inclinations," not denying they exist or surpressing them.  I'm fully aware of my animal nature, which includes the need for exacting revenge on those who deserve it.

Let me bore you with another story.  When I was a senior in high school, a very dear friend of mine and our family who was 57 at the time was beaten to death with a claw hammer.  We knew who did it, it was not a mystery.  His son in law.  I was 18.  I grabbed my hunting rifle and headed for my pickup with the notion that I would shoot that piece of crap down and deal with the consequences later.  I got to the truck, sat in it for a while and came to my senses and went back inside.  Son in law did 6 years for manslaughter.  Big deal.  If I could have 100% gotten away with it, I probably would have driven to his house, but probably still wouldn't have shot him.  I don't know.  I've forgiven a lot of people for a lot of things, but not him - he's nothing to me, and I don't waste my time dealing with 'nothings'.  I won't argue that revenge is a good thing, it's not.  But it's a natural, instinctual reaction that can't be unlearned in a lifetime imho.  You may not have it, but I do.  What I choose to do about it is all I can control, not the initial response of wanting it badly.