Though my evidence is only anecdotal, it seems to me that video game violence doesn't desensitize the viewer to real violence, either. An amusing example: http

Though my evidence is only anecdotal, it seems to me that video game violence doesn't desensitize the viewer to real violence, either. An amusing example: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/7/15/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/7/15/ I do wonder if there's a difference between violence in video games and movies. I know someone who plays Left 4 Dead for hours on end, but cannot stomach Braveheart or some journalistic photographs of violence and death. The gore is by far the highest in the first, but it is the realism of the second--and more strongly the reality of the third--that seems to sit so uneasily.