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What? Violence is embarrassing -- not arousing. And like sex, I wouldn't be comfortable to casually snack on popcorn while watching movies which present detailed re-enactments of people murdering each other. And I certainly wouldn't be comfortable to watch it with anyone else either.


> Violence is embarrassing -- not arousing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arouse - you have no idea.

But great, you'll learn something fundamental about a human construct we devised to help us cope with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis.


>I wouldn't be comfortable to casually snack on popcorn while watching movies which present detailed re-enactments of people murdering each other.

Check out the IMDb top 250 - the vast majority of movies near the top of the list fit your description.

https://www.imdb.com/chart/top

(..not to mention the huge popularity of first-person shooter games.)




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