According to the Oxford English Dictionary desensitization is known as an act or process of desensitizing and has become a huge issue in our society. There are certain emotions that are triggered to react to certain events, but desensitization disrupts these healthy emotions and people become emotionless. After thinking about the process of desensitization, I realized how it is very prevalent in my life and in the lives of those around me. In many way desensitization through the media and society has negatively affected our society because people don’t feel the emotions they should. However on the other hand in some instances desensitization can actually help us overcome fears. Desensitization does not always have a negative affect. One situation
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In tv shows, movies, and video games, shooting guns is normal and often encouraged. While a person seeing someone being shot for the first time would be sacred and shocked, a few times later the same individual might not even register shooting a gun as being bad. After are brains our exposed to the sight of someone being shot many times, it changes how we perceive guns. This has become a prevalent issue today with all of the recent gun shootings around the country. Because gun shootings have become so common in the news, when someone hears of a shooting they say, “just another gun shooting.” The realization I had with how common shootings have become and how each time the level of response to the shooting decreases is appalling. The Florida shooting is one of many shootings where the act of desensitization has taken a toll on the safety of society from guns. Another example of where society has been desensitized is on the war in Afghanistan. Because the war has been going on for 17 years, many people including myself have forgotten that there is still a war going on and that there are men dying every day to protect our country. This is a scary thought because since I dont live in Afghanistan and because others don’t normally bring up the war, I was desensitized to the emotions that come from knowing there is a war going where people are dying
In tv shows, movies, and video games, shooting guns is normal and often encouraged. While a person seeing someone being shot for the first time would be sacred and shocked, a few times later the same individual might not even register shooting a gun as being bad. After are brains our exposed to the sight of someone being shot many times, it changes how we perceive guns. This has become a prevalent issue today with all of the recent gun shootings around the country. Because gun shootings have become so common in the news, when someone hears of a shooting they say, “just another gun shooting.” The realization I had with how common shootings have become and how each time the level of response to the shooting decreases is appalling. The Florida shooting is one of many shootings where the act of desensitization has taken a toll on the safety of society from guns. Another example of where society has been desensitized is on the war in Afghanistan. Because the war has been going on for 17 years, many people including myself have forgotten that there is still a war going on and that there are men dying every day to protect our country. This is a scary thought because since I dont live in Afghanistan and because others don’t normally bring up the war, I was desensitized to the emotions that come from knowing there is a war going where people are dying