Realism in violence - yes, in other games - no ?
This reminds me of Terry Pratchett, who wrote a book about a young girl who's becoming a witch, who (as he expülicitely pointed out in one interview) measured it out if an oven could be used for baking children by an old witch. Not that any of the witch-accusers in this story had tried this measuring out before ... They preferred to cling to "non-realism" ...