Salon.com: WARNING - GRAPHIC What a beheading feels like: The science, the gruesome spectacle —

[LiberalElite]

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/03/what_a_beheading_feels_like_the_science_the_gruesome_spectacle_and_why_we_cant_look_away/

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There are lots of good physiological reasons why people find heads fascinating, and powerful, and tempting to remove. The human head is a biological powerhouse and a visual delight. It accommodates four of our five senses: sight, smell, hearing and taste all take place in the head. It encases the brain, the core of our nervous system. It draws in the air we breathe and delivers the words we speak. As the evolution­ary biologist Daniel Lieberman has written, ‘Almost every particle entering your body, either to nourish you or to provide information about the world, enters via your head, and almost every activity involves something going on in your head.’

A huge number of different components are packed into our heads. The human head contains more than 20 bones, up to 32 teeth, a large brain, of course, and several sensory organs, as well as dozens of mus­cles, and numerous glands, nerves, veins, arteries and ligaments. They are all tightly configured and intensely integrated within a small space. And people’s heads look good too. The human head boasts one of the most expressive set of muscles known to life. It is adorned with vari­ous features that lend themselves to ornamentation: hair, ears, nose and lips. Thanks to an impressive concentration of nerve endings and an unrivalled ability for expressive movement, our heads connect our inner selves to the outer world more intensely than any other part of our body.
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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Long article, but doesn't live up to the title.

There's maybe a sentence or two of speculation about what a beheaded person actually feels, and the rest of it is about other people watching beheadings and more speculation about why so many people actually want to.

[Agschmid]

2. Yup.

I didn't watch the videos and I wont.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Don't need to.

Because I'm not denying they actually happened.

One of the reasons I thought things like the Abu Ghraib photos needed to be made public was that without them, so many people were in total denial (or simply lying) about the abuses that went on there. You can't lie nearly as easily when there's photographic proof available that you are lying.

[Agschmid]

4. Agree.