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I've often wondered if the American censorship approach to violence for the past ~50 years gives us a warped relationship with stuff like violence. Because most the violence is often still there, but the physical effects are hidden. The connection between actions and consequences is absent.

And it's not just kids' media that does it. The PG-13 version is being able to depict countless people getting mowed down as long as we aren't shown blood, as long as the viewer doesn't have to be reminded that these are human beings. How is that not a thousand times more twisted???

The scene where the Winter Soldier casually hucks a hapless flight crewman into a jet engine in Cap 2 always comes to mind. PG-13, folks!

I think its worse that it has happened while life has (thankfully) removed people from death as much in life. i know young adults that havent had a family member or friend or pet die and they have such a hard time when it inevitably happens.

It is my firm belief that the whole edgy take on 'adult' genre fiction in the US is stemming from this repression. The kids are raised on stories centered around violence and sex (the whole superhero aesthetic, action figures with the biggest guns possible) bereft of actual violence and sex. 1/2