As Americans, do you think we are too desensitized to violence?

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I think back to 9/11 which was such a sad, tragic thing that happened and I honestly feel like we lost ourselves when that happened. Like nothing has fazed us more than that terrible event.

Now when things happen, it's like we don't really give a damn which is just sad.

I keep looking at different violent events that happen in the news now and I honestly go wow not another one and then go back to whatever I was doing. It's honestly rather sad to be this way. To be numb to it.

aaron13547 · Accepted Answer

Yes. I dont think violence is suppose to be ignored. The violence is part of us and we try to hid from that...

9/11 was such a powerful event because everyone in America and all over the entire world felt the same emotional connection. In the idea "omg why did that have to happen"

Desensitized was how American got payback for it... thats what caused the cycle in the first place.

We hide from ourselves and from violence. We justify they hurt us so I should hurt them... the result of that is everyone thinks they are the good guys... untill we can live as if we are all one these bad things will continue to happen.

Thats what we are Desensitized to. I am the same as you, as you are the same as me.

Being truly good is as simple as understanding how not to be bad. 🙂🙏

msc545 · Accepted Answer

Americans are extremely desensitized to violence because of the almost unending violence in our society. Since I have been alive, which has been a little while, there have been nothing but wars and murders and more wars and more murders. There's essentially a civil war or almost a civil war going on right now. I just saw a video of a man who had been murdered by federal agents lying on the sidewalk in Minneapolis. How much of this can we stand?

sage2021 · Answer

I get a lot of the titles in my notifications when I turn on my phone from a lot of different websites.

Most of the titles are about what you are asking about. There's a lot!! By the time I swipe left I hardly have any notifications left.

Although 911 is something that none of us will ever forget - I think that that's not what started more violence

It was okay until Biden opened up the border and let in 120 countries who sent cleared out their prisons, jails, and mental institutions and America 🇺🇸 inherited all those people.

And people are protesting to keep those people here in America 🇺🇸? WTF!!

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Yes. It’s weird to observe how the depiction of violence, even submitting children to it, is normalized and the depiction of nudity, not to mention sexuality, makes people completely losing it. Makes no sense to me and the statistics are obvious as well. Years ago a guy from the U. S. explained to me that whole „frontier mindset“, with violence as the core element of succeeding. But isn’t that all gone, for ~150 years now?

emeraldsaphire · Answer

Maybe compared to other first world countries. The US has crime rates that mirror third world countries, but thats limited to certain parts of cities. I think Americans are a bit more dramatic. Watch our TV shows, and like even the commercials and documentaries, everything is taken to extremes.

Kaneki05 · Answer

No way, humans have in fact gone soft and become more adverse to violence most wouldn't even kill their own food but rather it be hidden to then eat it without worry of how it was done.
And if you saw such violence in person you'd be freaking out. Meanwhile if you went into the past ya know it would be nothing but normal. And that's just me talking about an animal. Nvm any violence on each other, humans have flee response today than ever at least from what I can tell.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

I'm not an American, but i think that as much as we are seeing bad events on the news, we became numb in a way that we aren't shocked anymore or appear careless!

In fact, any horrible event is sad and i personally still wishes the best for everyone, also any crime or seeing that someone died makes me feel awful because i wish for others the things that i wish for myself but in the end of the day, there's nothing i can do or change...

Hagar88 · Answer

Yes. I mean a woman was set fire a while back in the NYC subway and people walked by. Another woman got stabbed in the subway in a racist hate crime and people stepped over her as she lay bleeding to death.

Agape93 · Answer

Nope. People freaked the fuck out when kirk got shot on camera. It wasn't even that bad, it was just bloody. They're used to fictional violence or hearing about it. But they are NOT desensitized.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Americans are too woke that sensitivity levels are through the roof resulting in unnecessary confrontations which often turn to violent conflicts.

OneViewpoint · Answer

The USA is a society in decline. The violence and Fascism are symptoms of the erosion of our values and economic slide into a 3rd world existence.

Spencer10 · Answer

Absolutely. America is a society that glamorizes violence.

NaultD · Answer

More students are killed in school shootings since sandy hook then soldiers dying in the middle east since 9/11 war on terrorism.

RandomGirl42 · Answer

I haven't really watched any news or violent movies in a long time. I feel much better.

exitseven · Answer

yes, now when you hear about somebody like Rachel Morin getting murdered by an illegal alien I just shake my head.

Grond21 · Answer

I think we can't carry the weight of the world's violence. Nor were we ever meant to. I believe that's what is reasserting itself.

Iamwhatiam23 · Answer

To an extent. I think we are desensitized to violence that is mentioned and/or shown on t. v. that we haven’t experienced in person. We are essentially living the motto “believe none of what you hear and little of what you see”.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Violence is nothing to me. Been around it my whole life

katiesmuff · Answer

It sure seems that way sometimes.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Nopei dont think we are at all. I think people just dont care anymore

loveslongnails · Answer

100% de-sensitized

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes sex and violence

PeterLegg91 · Answer

It's the same here in the uk Elaine

dudeinohio · Answer

Yeah, pretty much.

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