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by moetech 2832 days ago
It's dumb and it's there to pander to an edgy audience, but it really shouldn't be a problem. Why does that scene bother you? Isn't it just because that stuff is taboo?
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People watch shows for enjoyment. Most people don't enjoy watching a person urninate on another person.
Most people don’t change their gender yet we are told that’s perfectly acceptable?

So if some of us like watching people peeing on each other should we all be sent to Gulags?

At which point is the line drawn?

That may be all there's to it, but I bet the fact that it's sexual makes all the difference. Do you think Bucephalus355 would have bothered to complain about it if the scene was of a woman puking?
A) Puking is not anywhere near as disgusting, and you could get equally disgusted by seeing someone peeing on someone else even in a nonsexual context (e.g. hazing).

B) Some people can feel elevated disgust towards portrayals of other people being sexual. In that case, the fact that it's sexual does make the difference, but it's still a disgust reaction.

Point A is far more subjective than you're making it appear. Personally, puking is far more effective at provoking a reaction of disgust.
Not the parent, but I imagine:

1. It insults the intelligence of the viewer and indicates the rest of the show will do the same

2. Humans urinating on each other combined with torture is disgusting to the vast majority of viewers, and seeing a scene like that will naturally turn off many viewers. Even Game of Thrones saved the rape?-on-top-of-a-corpse scene for after the characters had substantial development.

On a related note, at what point does "don't judge" end? What if the opening scene depicted necrophilia? How about beastiality? There's nothing wrong with being disgusted by things 99.X% of the planet is disgusted by

By that metric fringe behavior shouldn't ever appear on TV, ever.

Or consider that the intent of that scene was to inspire disgust in the viewer. Does it tie into character development somehow?

Also, don't kink-shame...

To me it's not about "don't judge", but about not treating sexual things like they're special. Notice how both of your examples of potentially over-the-line content are also of a sexual nature.
> at what point does "don't judge" end?

Volenti non fit injuria. Necrophilia is ok, beastiality not so. Easy.

(Not that I'd like to see either, just saying which would make me search for torches and pitchforks.)