Before trying to determine whether desensitization to violence and video games are correlated in any way, we should explain first what is usually meant by ‘desensitization to violence’. Young people becoming desensitized to violence means that they gradually come to not be aroused by violent scenes and to not be bothered by violence in general. It is argued that children perceive screen violence as play or spectacle and somehow become immune to the horror of …showed first 75 words of 1105 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1105 total…After all, the game is there to be played, not to be watched. But if it was to be watched, one would see in it images, colors, motion, speed, sounds, special effects and music; definitely not violence. Therefore, young people very normally perceive this kind of ‘violence’ as play and spectacle because this is exactly what it is. The reason is not their being desensitized to violence as a result of too much violence viewing.