Arthur · 8 answers · 2y

Boomer question: is it wrong to think that the constant influx of fictitious violence in mass media contributes to some kind of desensitisation of people's feelings?

Violence is in us all, and it's not inherently a bad thing - it's about when and how it's used...you can't separate violence from the context in which it occurs, and it's often framed in mass media in terms of war - against other countries, against rival gangs, war on crime and/or drugs, war against Thanos, whoever has been framed as the bad guy for that particular work, but it's all propaganda - if you're paying attention, in most cases the good guys aren't really any better, THAT is the part that people get desensitized to that's dangerous - people go around blindly believing the violence that lines up with THEIR worldview is OK and never question it

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