Lord of the Flies by William Golding goes over this very question
It seems that people enjoy it because it's not real.
The boundaries of society and morality do not exist, therefore we are given free reign to our innate blood lust.
A violent videogame awakens a million year old instinct that can only be set loose in a virtual world.
Games may not be real, but they reflect the human being's inner blood lust, that, without society and morals, would be set loose without second thought, into the real world.
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