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Lots of talk about desensitization. Personally I can't watch any gruesome "beheading" videos or anything of that nature, and to the best of my knowledge it woul

Lots of talk about desensitization. Personally I can't watch any gruesome "beheading" videos or anything of that nature, and to the best of my knowledge it would sicken most others as well so I'm not sure the idea holds water. I think cartoon violence desensitizes you to cartoon violence, and real violence desensitizes you to real violence.

bonoboTP 6y ago
Cartoon violence is so over the top and symbolic when you see actual violence. The stomach turning aspect of real violence/torture/murder/rape is its bland mundane banal nature. No dramatic music, no redemption, no happy end, no heroism. So raw. I've seen quite some real gore online, similar to many online people. I don't know how it affects my psychology. I like to think it has at least some positive effects, like not fainting and less of a shock if I need to act in such a situation. But maybe real world violence seen through my eyeballs not through a screen is a whole another thing again. Maybe hearing and seeing real abuse is not something you can "prepare for" through gore videos.