A Desensitized Society: Heartless Humans

The question I saw posed in this paper was, "Are we as humans desensitized to dead bodies because of video games, movies, and so forth?" The author thought this when he visited the Mutters Museum and noticed that they and others around them did not care or cringe when looking at a corpse in front of them. Many believe this is because society today is more exposed to dead bodies through forms of media than in previous years. Many people visit the museum and laugh at the different bodies and how those people died. I personally don't feel that the reason we don't feel sorrow for these people is because we are desensitized, but because these bodies are layed out for us in an exibit in a museum. The setting is meant for us to just walk by and look and point as if it were anything being showcased. I think if it were a different setting, for example a crime scene, people would cringe and feel compassion for the person lying there dead with nails sticking out of their body.