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During our class discussion, I found it very interesting how video games are censored and criticized due to there graphics and/or symbolized violence (or lack thereof). When thinking about entertainment of the past I found it rather fascinating to compare Gladiators to video games. Although there seems to be an outcry on how realistic and detrimental these games are to young peoples perceptions of actual violence they really aren’t any worse than the entertainment of the past. In fact, modern society seems to have used technology to reduce the physical pain that comes from violence while still managing to entertain. By removing ourselves from the pain we are really mimicking what is taking place in our society. Wars which are fought today are done so with such advanced technology that those fighting often are doing so from thousands of miles away. Maybe, video games really are a “Prospective of our existence” as suggested in the documentary we watched.