Was it because nudity and swearing were easier sins to fall into? Was it because they were worse sins?
I remember watching the movie Gladiator and my mom making a comment wondering aloud if we were any different than the Romans for getting entertainment out of watching people kill each other.
And that's where I always had a problem and that's where MY distinction comes from. The violence I watch on TV isn't real. No one is actually being killed or hurt. No one in the movie The Patriot actually got their head or their leg blown off by a cannon. It's not real. Yes, those things happened in history- but what I'm seeing isn't real.
When there is nudity in a movie, it's real nudity. It isn't made up. That is actually someone's body. When there is swearing in a movie, it's the actual swear word, delivered in the form of real swearing.
This is why modern war movies, where the soldiers and dressed in uniforms that look like the ones I see on real people are too much for me. I can't watch those movies - because the violence is too real for me. I can't separate it enough. Other people don't have that problem. But it's not the amount of violence that bothers me. It's the level of reality.
Honestly, there's more actual violence in an airsoft game than in a movie. And that, for me, is why the swearing and nudity bother me, why I don't want to see that - and why the violence in most things does not.
