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Violence as Novocain People fighting, weapons, gun fire, pain, and hurt none of us want in our lives, and yet all of this is a part of almost everyone’s every day life through entertainment. Try to think of the last time a day passed when you saw no violence whatsoever. It’s hard, if not impossible, to do. In today’s society, images of physical beatings, people being shot or stabbed, and even more gruesome scenes, are a part of multimedia we view every day in our lives through television, movies, and games. How long has society been like this? If you are older than about thirty or thirty-five, there may be a time where you remember violence not being so present every day. Younger generations, on the other hand, have grown up in a world where seeing such violence is not such a big deal. The fact is that violence in today’s multimedia has drastically numbed people’s view on real life violence. In today’s society, the younger generation finds violence to be a non-event. The younger the person is, the more violence he or she has been exposed to. These days, to see a person shot and killed on television doesn’t faze anyone. A five year-old and his parents could be watching the same show where a man is b