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Why do we despise the visual display of something but casually tolerate the song's lyrics?

Why do we despise the visual display of something but casually tolerate the song's lyrics?


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A fire-obsessed culture may be expected to smile wryly at pyromaniacs and smirk at those who carelessly tempt fate by sloshing about with flammable liquids. Its cultural elite might laugh with condescension at people who wanted such dangerous behavior contained.

Only to outside observers would they appear as the hypocrites they are when they react with shock and horror as buildings catch fire.

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