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[The Simpsons] How does everyone tell the difference between animation (like Itchy and Scratchy), and live action (like McBane)?

I would think that if animation mirrors their reality almost 100%, as to make it nearly indistinguishable from live action, then the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons would traumatize children much in the way that watching a real live cat getting tortured in our world would traumatize us. So there must be a visual difference between the two that we do not perceive. What does it look like to them?
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animals in the Simpsons universe aren't anthropomorphic so there's that to start with, Itchy and Scratchy also follow traditional 'cartoon' physics (ie over the top violence, pull giant weapons from their pockets, burst their eyeballs out of their head when scared/surprised etc)