FirstNameLastName said:
What exactly makes you think I'm excluding myself from this? I'm not claiming to abhor violence, merely pointing out that there are many others who do. As for 90% of videogames being about killing, again, this has hardily slipped under the radar without plenty of objection.
Now let's get all phylosophical here: you too, obviously, don't excluse yourself from enjoying a media featuring violence for entertainment (wether it's Call Of Duty type of shooter or an horror movie or a death metal band).
I think no sane person in the world would ever claim "I hate all forms of violent media!" because hello, even little kids enjoy them in the form of fairytales and similar. We're born with a thrill for violence.
The difference being of course, that for example a gore drawing that does not impress me might creep out someone else. It doesn't mean that I enjoy violence more than the other guy; it just means we have different sensibilities. Pretty sure there's many things out there that creep me out and many others find normal (Spongebob, for example... it's visually unsettling and disturbing for me yet lotsa people love it).
I am of the idea that violence is a very big part of nature, and therefore, no matter how evolved we are, it still occupies a very big part in our brains. This doesn't mean that we love violence, it just means that it catches our attention, and that often we want to see it in a fictional version as if to exorcize it.
Now I love gore art, as a lot of people apparently do if you go visit porn fanarts. Real life gore horrifies me, however. Maybe I am so thrilled by fictional gore because it scares me while not scaring me, the same kind of experience of people who love being freaked out by an horror film because they know they're not in danger.
As to why do I get off to it? Because fear is a powerful emotional response, and a study somewhere said a powerful fear response can get mixed up with an erotic response.