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I share AB's feelings. There is something deeply disturbing about those detailed scenes of graphic violence. It's worse if it becomes a type of paradigm, and writers consider that including such scenes is a means to make their work popular.
It's hard to know what to do, because on a case-by-case basis, authors can always justify such scenes. It becomes a problem when you consider them collectively.
The answer would seem to be not censorship, but some form of radical-pacifist writing that actively showed the destructive effects of violence on people's lives.
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