Violence and art

ACP today, the last of 2012, included what will be a subject we address in the new year, I hope. Violence, art? While we did not quite capture the thoughts that were flying through our heads, I later found a link between Kurt Vonnegut's view(expressed in an interview on CBC's The Current) that we humans don't deserve life, and some of the films, tv shows we mentioned, wherein people kill each other so graphically, casually, it is as if life does not even come into it. A big, complex subject. In some ways art counterbalances violence, and yet...