re: #129 Destro

And yet you still have not answered the questions.

Amazing.

We can debate Spartan women some other time… not because you are correct, you aren’t, but because I am so fascinated by you inability to reason.

Let’s try again:

1) Do you deny that showing someone in shadows, just an outline without a face is frequently used to represent a lurking threat?

The fact that sometimes masks are used in a brightly colored masked hero positive context is not the issue. That is a clumsy dodge.

Why is a man in the shadows scary? Can you think of an evolutionary reason this might be so?

2) Can you think of no times when such imagery has been used to that effect? Seriously… have you never seen it used that way? I think the Time cover photo of this very thread is pretty clear about it. What with “the battle for Jerusalem and the word struggle and all that….

What does battle + struggle + shadow equal?

3) Why is hiding the face of someone threatening? Why are people who can’t be identified more threatening than those who can be identified?

Your imagining you were the other person bit is adorable… Do you imagine you are Hezbollah or Hamas? Do you imagine you are Darth Vader? What is the goal of those outfits?

4) Did you ever notice that the other purpose of hiding one’s face was to empower them to do evil? Seriously, how does mob mentality work? Why do the storm troopers have no faces in Starwars?

Actually answer this one. Don’t pretend you did.

5) If there is nothing to this, why did the Nazis use that image again and again in their propaganda?

Actually answer this one. Don’t pretend you did.

But go on… keep proving my point. You are literally incapable of seeing it in this frame. It is amazing.

I suppose the way to reach you would involve framing it differently.

So who do you like? What if they were shown in shadows ominously… Really tragic levels of denial here. Is ego that much more important to you?