Our worst killings as in mass occurred before tv was even a house hold thing and also the wild west ,nor the Roman empire ,or Canaan was exactly non violent and peaceful,Commom practice of human sacrifice to the gods in the Levant and Roman cruelty isn't any better,babies left to die if they were rejected.There is a danger withanything we do constantly.
It is called desensitizing, where we become so accustomed to an image that it no longer moves us.
It is a real problem and is why violent criminals become more and more violent.
Why do we think man is getting better outside of the cross?the world was,and is and shall be evil until the judgement .that's why I'm amil .I don't like violent games,or the culture but its not new,gladiators ,and that wasn't a sign of desentivation?how Europa wiped out local tribes for their lands ?said tribes wiped each other out .
The apache were a mixed lot ,this needs a thread,the ais,and caloosa,and timucuan were cannibals and ate their defeated foes,as did the Aztecs,and Mayans .