Should all unpleasant matter be depicted?
Like I said earlier, you have to earn the right to depict it by dealing with it seriously.
Should all unpleasant matter be depicted?
It pretty much has been in the history of art. The only thing that keeps folks from being outraged about it is their lack of education.
Figure Saturn ate his own children...for starters.
When there are no standards, pretty much anything goes, under the guise of "art" and "tastefully dealing with dreadful subject matter."
Equivocation is the new norm.