I have an understanding because I have an understanding of warfare. People do not understand violence. This is one of the reasons I actually object to censoring gore and violence on the news and general television. People don't understand what a brutal attack looks like, and the mentality of the person conducting the attack. All they've ever seen of violence was a scrum, maybe a weapon, then pixels, and a narrator saying that they can't show what happened next.

I used to be a regular on r/WatchPeopleDie and while you can definitely over-do it, people need to see what real horror looks like. Before the sub closed, there was a big discussion on what people had taken away from the sub. Top answer: "wear your seatbelt 100% of the time when traveling at speed." You don't need to many examples of what happens to people who get ejected to understand that the seat-belt rule is a moral imperative. Any cop would tell you the same thing. This is because the horror and gore is valuable information that you should memorize so that you don't let it happen to you.

I know people that work in corrections, and I'll tell you what, nobody is more against "reform and rehabilitation" than people who live and work with criminals every day. If they had their way, the US would have a "Bloody Code". This is because they see what these people do, how they refuse to improve, and without even the slightest filter.