Pardon me if I wander off into a debating, folks, it's a great topic, IMHO :)

Well, I've seen folk putting "violence" warnings on weapons, military aircraft that are doing nothing at all...that is silly! ;)

An inanimate item, no matter how horrific it is, cannot be "violent" until it's doing something, classic example is a cross is neutral geometric shape, but showing someone nailed and bleeding on it, well...but that is considered a "norm" in many places.
But they can also be incredible pieces of art. Salvadore Dali's St John of the Cross is one of the most outstanding images I have ever seen, for example.
Then you have say, the pinyata a "helpless animal" being beaten apart...so you also have intent as an issue.

A gun can inflict horrendous injury, but, by itself, it is completley harmless, it cannot jump up and use itself, the oft said phrase "Guns don't kill,poeple kill" is 100% true, liek it or not. 
I'm not scared of guns, knives, sharp pointy sticks or any other inanimate object that is not inherently dangerous.
I'm scared of vicious, cowardly, scared, stupid, evil, mentally disturbed people with weapons.

It's not 'til a Human Being picks one up that it becomes dangerous. Doesn't matter if it's machine gun or a nail file, it's the person holding it who makes it dangerous.
Most lethal thing in creation everyone of us has...taps his skull ;)

I understand where ArtPearl is coming from, and it's not cool if she's upset by the image being too gory for her tastes. 
But it's 100% a make believe image, as a kid I used ot love using the "horror make up kits" to make meself look even worse than that, lol.
Hwoever, it's when folk cross the line, when they show real violence being done that you should get concerned.

I hear garbage that games etc cause violence, oh what a load of hairy male spheres! :P So, did Hitler play DOOM ? Ghenghis Khan play Command & Conquer?
Kids should NOT see realistic violence, it can affect them, but rela life violence in fornt of you is vaslty worse than images, but Tom & Jerry isn't real, anyone who thinks it is has a screw loose.
If you let kids too young play games, or play games too much, then you may have issues one psychological, other I suspect just too much sensory overload.

One of the most offensive images in the entire world is a very simple decal: the nazi swastika, because of what it represents, it has more blood and horror stained in than every film or image ever made combined.
Yet, the proper, unreversed swastika is a symbol of light and good.
 

I'd much rather there was the ability to self censor, than for there to be broad censorship which is IMHO, dangerous for a whole load of reasons.
ie ArtPearl has every right to not want to see that image, if so, ArtPearl should be able to turn it off somehow. That is the best solution? :)

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