"What I'm saying is; let's stop pretending. Of course violence, when it's in fiction rather than in life, is fun. It's part of the imaginative experience; imagination is our way of living other lives, and since we can do so without incurring actual injury, the more violent the better. It's cathartic, it's exhilarating, it can be beautiful; but the key point is; IF YOU'RE A SANE AND MORAL PERSON, WATCHING VIOLENT MOVIES DOESN'T MAKE YOU VIOLENT. Reality, fiction; fiction, reality: two different things. And, as a writer of action SF, I have to concede that violence is my business. I write violence, I read violent books by other authors; I spend large parts of my day wondering whether a character should die by having his head blown up, or whether it would be more fun to have him eat a live snake and be consumed from the inside out." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Most of the videogame industry makes its money from that principle. - Andrew C (✓)

Aw. I love kung fu movies, and the HK "heroic bloodshed" (John Woo & co) flicks too. - Andrew C (✓)

And a whole bunch of violent videogames too, if I'm being honest. (Not so much into excessively gory games.) - Andrew C (✓)