Yes. They do. But, what they see are cartoons not real people dying. You don't want to see a real person die in person or even in a video because unless you are a doctor or a nurse going through this trying to save them, or a policeman or fireman you really don't want to put this kind of thing in your brain. Seeing fictitious things is one thing. However, a real person is quite another.
And if you think you are playing video games preparing for the real thing they aren't the same. Video games are fantasy. A real person you can actually identify with or emphathize with. And whether you throw up or not when seeing a real person die has nothing to do with how macho you are.
Everyone has a version of post traumatic stress disorder from the real thing. It harms even policemen and firemen and often they get divorced from what it does to them even with counseling over the years, even though they all know what to say to avoid being let go from their positions. Even they couldn't tell the truth to a psychologist and keep their jobs ever about what they HAVE TO see and do on the job everyday.
Every person in traffic accidents over the years that I saw dead or dying has stayed with me and it isn't good. Does it make me a better driver? Probably.
But, watching someone in real death convulsions from a real violent accident when they were thrown from a car isn't something I want to witness ever again in person. And I don't want to see real people being beheaded either.
It's important to be realistic about what it is really like to be a human being and not live in some kind of fantasy about what humans really are.
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