Before modification by The Shrike at 20/10/2017 07:29:42 PM
I can respect this, but my response is that people without PTSD simply wouldn't read the trigger warning page, much like how I don't read the page about how a book is a third edition published in 1964 and has an ISBN number and is copyrighted.
Another, perhaps simpler solution, is to simply have a website that catalogues media and provides these warnings. That way a person could seek it out if they feel it necessary to be forewarned, while others would not have it spoiled. What is your opinion on that?
That way people worried about their reactions have the choice to go visit the page. And that way the story is not spoiled for everyone else. People right now can go to Wikipedia to read the entire plot if they want to so having a third party website doesn't seem that far from that.
I still would like to see studies done - and since we are using PTSD - ask what the men and women (in whatever capacity they served such as front line nurses, etc) who fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq thought about the literature they were reading. Presumably none of the books had trigger warnings when the former military personnel those books.