Differences in Violence and Emotion
Differences in Violence and Emotion
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I think desensitized is the right word. The experience doesn't hinge upon the details—If it's literally a person dying in front of our eyes on youtube or an uncomfortably realistic portrayal of such a death—our experience, the viewer's experience is real. It's shocking, and it's really bad, but once we've seen it, our minds navigate the experience and we are slightly better prepared to cope with it next time. A evolutionary biologist would probably say it's a survival instinct from millions of years of adaptation. Lather, rinse, repeat...
- probably true to a point - but if that was totally true PTSD wouldn't be a problem for army veterans********
- i agree, it's not a mechanism that's by any means perfect. And some have higher thresholds than others tooArvizu
- probably true to a point - but if that was totally true PTSD wouldn't be a problem for army veterans