I dont really see a problem in posting a link to a video as long as the people are made aware that it could be disturbing and possibly what is contained within. Then people can then make an informed decision on whether or whether not to click the link.

Now please oh please do not take me the wrong way in what I am going to say next as I have been thinking of other ways to put this but it seems like the only way I can put it is by saying it the only way I can at the moment.

I watch crash videos as a way of learning and trying to understand the way in which accidents occur and why. I enjoy watching these videos as a way of learning.

This was the word to not take the wrong way.

I do not however watching enjoy watching human suffering so would not possibly like to see over 5 minutes of the crowd from an airshow crash writhing about on stretchers and being carted off to hospital. I can however deal with this and put it in context to try and follow what has happened around the scene ie the spread of wreckage and where everything happend to end up.

Why am I like that? Because I am interested in the subject. What causes accident and how to prevent them. Maybe one day I will be the one to recommend to the CAA of whomever the official body is that airshows should be given the green light to continue because of A, B and C. You never know but one day it might be my job.

In the mean time I keep a close interest in the subject. I have been to quite a few historic wreck sites over the years but not as many as other have been to and I learn from each one. I try and understand what happened and why.

I do agree with both sides of this argument from different angles as there are a number of things about this. Like I think people should be shielded from the gore as some people would have it but personally it doesnt bother me. Maybe from the amount of gore films and maybe from the amount of documentaries about the war in (Enter theatre of operation here) that show the bloodiest of injuries and death there on our screens I have become a bit less sensative to the whole thing. It does mean that I dont care that people have lost their lives I do but I can however put my feeling like that to one side because I did not know these people. Now it may be different if someone I knew or love was there and injured.

I dont really care that now I may be called several different names because of how I think. I really dont care that you dont want to see videos or that you want to see videos. It is life and the loss of life. It is a fact and it was factual. It was an event that happened.

What I do care about is that the whole subject is treated with the care respect and dignity it deserves and doesnt end up becoming a side show in a circus as it some many times has in the past.

Just remember there are other people viewing that may see your comments and who may even be one of the grieving families.

My piece said and I will say no more on it. I just felt this thread does deserve some sort of reply and is a better place here in GD than on the incident thread on historic.