Do you think the people of the yester years were more tolerant to violence, death, destruction, gore etc than the people of today?

Well I get pretty freaked out just by looking at pictures of decapitated people and anything to do with blood. Surely in the good old days when people were fighting with machetes, swords and spears those things were very common in battlefields. I've just seen a documentary of the Japanese history in the 1800-1900 and the Meiji Restoration and there was a part where the victorious army chopped off the heads of the defeated. All 50,000 of them.

Even in the Vietnamese history, I've read a part where when Dai Viet's army conquered Champa's capital, the whole city was drenched in blood. We were also quite capable of extreme cruelty when it comes to torturing also, such as lang tri (one by one little pieces of flesh being sliced off until the condemned die) and trampled by elephant. They must have been gory.

All this stuffs are just coming directly from my mind. They don't neccessarily make sense grammatically but you know what I mean yeah?

The television, a gore driven media and Hollywood were not created until recently. Most people have never seen such level of gore before, so its only natural that they should feel uncomfortable when presented with such a scene.

To my knowledge, only the Romans saw the spilling of blood and death as entertainment. Well, you could perhaps add Americans to that list if you count bringing your family out to watch a civil war battle while having a picnic with the same regards.

Oh yea, why do people use the phrase "the good old days" when most of those days weren't very good at all?

I'm sure the Aztecs enjoyed it too...they made WAY too many sacrifices to their Sun God.. maybe the were just paranoid..

That's right! Romans loved such scenes. When there was a killing scene at a Roman theatre where the hero has to kill the bad guy, he always had to kill him for real (slaves always were used for that) cuz the audience wanted to see some real blood. Gee, I wouldn't be able to watch something like that..taking people's live just for their amusement!

Yes I think only the Romans used killing for public entertainment. I've seen documentaries where there was a huge celebration for many days and tens of thousands of gladiators were killed for entertainment, as well as wild animals. That's how lions in the Arabian peninsula become extinct.

But the point I'm asking is: are today's people become more sensitive to violence?

Not really, people would like to say that they are, but I've noticed that even today's movies do not accurately portray all of the horrors of say a modern war.

Just because people flock to see gore and such does not mean that they're desensitized to it, but rather because its something that they do not see often, its new.