[deadbabe]

There are individuals who actively enjoy or even seek out this kind of graphic content. I never understood why they aren’t recruited more as their unique talent would probably help them excel in this kind of career. I remember on Reddit someone was writing about how he gets “gore boners” from this stuff. Why mentally abuse normal minded individuals for this work? Obviously they can’t handle it and probably go home everyday shaken.

[hattmall]

If the work has the potential to cause a mental disturbance then you want the baseline to be fairly close to normal. If the guy that gets gore boners is tasker with looking at disturbing content all day and then had some sort of mental break it would probably be a lot worse than what a normal person might end up doing.

[bonesss]

Imagine the questioning in a liability case, too.

Hiring the acknowledged gore enthusiast with the devil tattoo’s and light criminal record miiiight impact the foreseeability of negative outcomes in or as a result of the workplace.

Maybe people with memory issues or lack of empathetic responses could be used, but even then, you’re piling something odd on something dysfunctional.

[jimmygrapes]

I believe this is a central premise of Peter Watts' Rifters series, related to submarines and astronauts and such, wherein "broken" people are considered more resilient to heavy shit than the equally capable/trained people who may more likely break when faced with said heavy shit.

[fc417fc802]

There's broken and then there's just outliers. There are also small clusters that aren't the norm but aren't really outliers either. (Also Watts writing is fantastic.)

[anal_reactor]

I browse gore the way you'd browse TikTok. The answer why I'm not a moderator is very simple - I'd need to leave my cushy software job and get a job that's minimum wage. Imagine your coworker telling you "I actually enjoy driving people around" and your first reaction being "then why don't you become an Uber driver" without considering the option that Uber pays like shit.

If you find me €150k job where I just sit and watch gore all day long then I'll take the job immediately.

[deadbabe]

Still, there are plenty of gore enthusiasts who have no other talent or prospects besides being able to consume massive amounts of gruesome gore. Surely they could find employment in this field.

[anal_reactor]

I can imagine explicit rule "no child porn on slack" lol.

I'd argue that maybe the ability to watch gore without going insane is paired with emotional self-control, which is paired with high intelligence. That is to say, maybe the set of people you're speaking of is smaller than you think.