We're not all robots.

Images have emotional impact.

there is no "we" on a website like this and most readers here are certainly not intellectual. maybe intellectual to an extent ... but everybody is intellectual to an extent.

> here we are techies which are supposed to be intellectual to an extent. We should be able to handle more violent truths natively

I think many view stoicism in the face of such imagery to be a sign of an enlightened mind, but I disagree. Empathy is a form of intelligence. The images from the article are disturbing, and I'd argue they should be. That so many of us are quick to discount the obvious pain and suffering within is concerning to me, and I'd even label it a deficiency. We should feel upset by death and dismemberment.

Nature is brutal and deadly. If the orcas don't eat they will starve.

It is not a case of lacking empathy, it is more a case of recognizing that those images, as gory is they might be, are simply depictions of raw nature functioning as it should. Predator eats prey, and both play a role in this cycle. I personally find it fascinating, especially as humans evolved past the need to adapt to nature, and rather manipulate nature to better suit themselves.

It may be me living in a (wrong) bubble, but I have the impression that everything must be more gruesome nowadays. Take Hollywood movies where every shot must splatter blood on the walls behind, successful comics are all gory, even in books you'd see all this described in every detail. So these journalists are simply following a trend.