Audiences habituate to violence so that even its rising lethality goes unremarked

Evidence

The lethality of media violence has increased over time but no longer results in public protests or congressional hearings. The parents of today were raised on a heavy diet of televised violence. Does the public quiescence of recent years reflect parental desensitization and habituation to human violence? — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 977

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 977
• XREF: connects to: Cinematic catastrophe overshadows more insidious forms of violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 420