Kinda numbs the public, huh?

I think it's perception manipulation.

Deliberate? I don't know.

What I do know, is that the more people see those images, the more numb they can become. At first it will illicit emotion, then it becomes "normal."

I've seen lots of death in my job. After a time I became somewhat numb to death. Not that I did not care, but, you get used to it when you see it every day.