This article is awesome and largely summarizes how I feel.

However, I think the author may have overlooked the fact that perhaps Levine and the rest of the crew at Take Two was TRYING to desensitize us. I thought a large point of the game was to show how the Ayn Rand (or Andrew Ryan in the game) objectivist philosophy is seriously fucked up, because we start to become one of the splicers areselves, eating the little girls, serving only our interest "for the greater good of society" and losing our humanity in the process! In the end we realize how desensetized we've become through that ending cutscene! (Of course not really, its just a game, but you get the idea.)

Also videogame companies--especially Rockstar/Take Two--have been getting a lot of shit from the media from overly concerned Republican parents (think the mom from Detroit Rock City) actually trying to pass laws to restrict the content of videogames. I just don't think actually showing the cute little girl's neck being snapped on the computer or xbox360 tv screen would help the cause for us gamers, and it wouldn't have made a big differnce in gameplay anyways. Thanks ya'll!!