This one I know for a fact, when medical students dissect corpses, to lighten up the mood, they make wagers whether the person drank or not, before cutting open and inspecting the liver.

I spent more than a few nights at 3am attempting to get through to the right authorities in the right country to stop a crime from happening.

What google should have done is have multiple people doing it in the same office. You can ask about edge cases, you can joke about what you’re seeing, and the normal interaction helps you distance yourself from it.

Long term, the job left me with some difficulty single-tasking and a huge knowledge of sexual kinks around the world.

Compare (triggers!): how people react to someone beating an old woman to take her purse vs. burning kittens with a cigar; forcing a drugged woman to have sex vs. a child. Good people will oppose all of them, but very often will overlook or rationalize away the ones they are used to.

Something being sickening, though, stops them from doing that. And yes, that can be very valuable. Why do you think humans developed that kind of reaction in the first place?

Two Heads?  No heads?  Multiple, long, spidery limbs?   No problem.

We’re looking at how this employee had essentially invested a lot of time, effort and even mental health to do the work assigned to him, yet was denied opportunities and job security without explanation.  The fact that he was not originally ‘depressed’ and reacted like a large number healthy, balanced people would in a similar situation doesn’t make the company’s treatment of him any less cavalier.

I don’t link those two elements : being hurt / become a monster. But just the 1st is bad enough. That’s why I tend to avoid those gross things.

i mention the blood because its pretty damn extreme. I cannot watch a horror movie without calling bullshit when someone stumbles upon blood. The scent of quantities of blood isnt something one doesnt pick up.

I consider myself an aspiring toaist, a socialist, and one who is concerned with the health and happiness of the collective. your rights end where another’s beings and all, and all that. I was programmed by star trek, ultima 4, starblazers, the book of five rings, and a culture of “It’s WE the people.”

You might want to put your football down if you judged me as a sociopath. I have a variety of neurosis and quirks to be sure, but I’m far far from a sociopath.

People are different.  There are those in the rescue services who need psychologic help and (from what I gather a small subset) some just shrug it off w/out being sociopaths.

I don’t think I’m the same as Mr. Hicks in regards to how I perceive these types of things.  For me there is a psychological disconnect for a lot of the stuff I see on the internet.  Since it is here, it has already happened, and there really isn’t anything I can do to change that (other than perhaps learn what I can from it).  In reality that doesn’t make what I am seeing any less “wrong”, but at the same time I don’t feel a connection to it.  Depending on the pay I’d be willing to be Google’s human internet filter.