The Consequences Of Being Desensitize

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Lastly, when you watch a horror movie, of course you know that it’s not real. Though how can you help not feeling what those characters are feeling. Someone is being tortured, do you not feel sad for them and experience their fear? When a human being is mutilated, do you not feel the disgust and agony? Not only do these emotions have a traumatic effect on us but they begin to desensitize us. You become numb to those emotions and feelings. Imagine watching mutilation and torture not once, but many times. After a while, because you feel the emotions of what the characters are going through, you begin to become numb to those emotions. Example of the illustration of emotions and feeling being desensitize will be, when you see someone is tortured,

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