Those videos are abhorrent. I would never watch one simply because there can&#x27;t possibly be any gain from it. But the one thing those IS characters probably do not realize is that those videos serve yet another purpose: they dehumanize IS, and in that sense they make it a lot easier to sleep well if we decide to end that nonsense in a more drastic fashion.<p>After all, imagine the Nazi&#x27;s taking selfies and sending multimedia out into the world about what was happening inside the concentration camps. The war would possibly have ended a lot sooner because quite a few people that were still defending the regime and were claiming &#x27;wir haben es nicht gewusst&#x27; would have stood up to do something about it. One of those attempts might have succeeded. It would have also served as anti-propaganda in getting other nations to jump on board of the allies train sooner.<p>I see IS as a last ditch attempt at consolidation, if it fails they might as well not have tried hence their flaunting of all the rules, nothing left to lose.