Looking at these games from the outside, many of us are appalled. From the inside, players are absorbed in actions that test the limits of their perceptual, cognitive and motor abilities, but their emotions and ethical faculties are getting no exercise at all. They are engrossed, not in choosing to act but in acting . In these representations, personal agency has shrunk down to a point. It is a point where there is no character, no ethos, no complexity of thought, no choice.
Censorship is no use.
In fact, it is a really bad idea, for more than the Constitutional reasons. Ugly media is to the culture as pain is to the individual. It is a warning signal that something is wrong and needs attention. Your hand is on the stove, your body has been invaded by microbes, your kid is experiencing total powerlessness. The function of pain is to get our attention.