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Originally Posted by Mictlantechutli
It's a tricky subject and I'm sure my answer is an over-simplification of the subject but...No.
Sure I'm desensitized to (and actually quite titillated by) screen violence but that's where it ends. I saw a real dead body not too long ago - terrible car crash, lots of blood and a few easily identifiable body parts detached from their hosts - and I was truly upset.
I feel those who use this argument about the desensitization have either lived a coddled life, free of talk about death, intentionally turning a blind eye to the real horrors of the world; or they have a pre-existing mental imbalance which is the true root of the problem.
Art cannot hurt you, but it certainly can affect you.
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Very good points. Even as a kid I had a clearly defined idea of real and imaginary. I was very into sci-fi and action movies, love3d violent games, played d&d....
Adn as entertaining as I found all of that, I hated the vietnam documentaries where they showed people being executed in the street. There is no fun in death, but death in entertainment is often a catharsis; it almost never happens to the undeserving in horror, so ther eusually is a sense of justice in it.