Violence and Punishment(#31)
-Violence is the physical act of altering, hurting, and treatment of something or someone.
-Punishment is used to have someone obey norms, standards, rules, or laws.
Is violence nessecary? When is it necessary?
I seem to find that violence is nessecary for one ultimatum standard: It satisfies the id, ego or superego of a person, sometimes all 3 or combinations of the latter (if you dont know what that is, do some research on Frued). Sidenote: There are also times when it is nessecary for certain rare situations to use violence, but that is not the point of this.
It ultimatly satifies a persons desire of some sort, to get something satisfy something, or feel something, whether that is power, fear, resentment, hatred, whatever. I seem to find that violence is a natural human characteristic, as most people do something violent in their lifetime. But what causes that person to do something violent? What causes that person to stop doing violent things? Well, it depends on the desire.
If you desired others to fear you, for whatever reason, lets say for hypothetical reasons, that you got picked on and wanted others to fear you, so they wouldnt pick on you. So lets say you've been working out a lot to the point where you can bench 500 pounds and everyone is talking about how buff you are, and how big you are, and no one seems to pick on you, because when they do, if they would try, you just shove them to the ground. You have instilled fear upon them.
Slowly you will get over that CRAVING for presenting that fear to others, and go on to satisfy some other desire like in maslows pyramid of hierarchy (again, do some research if you dont know what that is). Violant tendancies exist naturally just like many other things, and they seem to go away or come back depending on extremes or situations.
Violence doesnt just mean physical acts does it? Doesnt yelling hurtful names or threatening someone, or use of words to coherce, manipulate, or otherwise hurt someone else make them violent? I guess in sense, yes, per-se, it is violent, but now we're defining something different, but nevertheless it is violent and hurtful, and violence is usually intended for someone or something else to be hurt or physically altered.
Punishment is used, for a long time, and still is, punishment in the form of violence. Corporal punishment and capitol punishment are still used today. To lay the foundation, Corporal punishment is the physical act of hurting someone to otherwise coherce, discipline, or have them obey a particular standard, norm, rule, law, whatever.
Corporal punishment is still around, it may always be; parents use it to "discipline" their kids on what is right and wrong. I laugh at that type of logical thinking. Corporal punishment is violent, and it is hurtful. It never teaches moral lessons, or real reasons to WHY something happens, it never teaches or explains WHY, but rather it teaches pain and fear. It teaches you to fear that pain, and to not have this pain again, don't do that "bad" thing again, it is "wrong".
Corporal punishment never explains why, or questions the thoughts of what its own actions do, it never means to explain or analyze, just to follow blindly, to conform blindly, to do or not to do this particular thing, because it is "wrong".
Kids who grow up on corporal punishment actually learn to use this fear and type of thinking. To use physical or emotional pain, to have someone fear them, so that way they could get what they need or want, whether that is to satisfy their anger for the day by beating the crap out of you for no particular reason, or to make you seem un-cool to everyone so you'd have to conform to his thinking to seem cool, to blend in with the crowd, so you wont be socially outcasted, or maybe intimidating you to give him some money, to get some food.
Violence breeds more violence, negative thoughts breed more negative thoughts.
Can violence and negativity be beneficial to an indivdual or society or both?
-Punishment is used to have someone obey norms, standards, rules, or laws.
Is violence nessecary? When is it necessary?
I seem to find that violence is nessecary for one ultimatum standard: It satisfies the id, ego or superego of a person, sometimes all 3 or combinations of the latter (if you dont know what that is, do some research on Frued). Sidenote: There are also times when it is nessecary for certain rare situations to use violence, but that is not the point of this.
It ultimatly satifies a persons desire of some sort, to get something satisfy something, or feel something, whether that is power, fear, resentment, hatred, whatever. I seem to find that violence is a natural human characteristic, as most people do something violent in their lifetime. But what causes that person to do something violent? What causes that person to stop doing violent things? Well, it depends on the desire.
If you desired others to fear you, for whatever reason, lets say for hypothetical reasons, that you got picked on and wanted others to fear you, so they wouldnt pick on you. So lets say you've been working out a lot to the point where you can bench 500 pounds and everyone is talking about how buff you are, and how big you are, and no one seems to pick on you, because when they do, if they would try, you just shove them to the ground. You have instilled fear upon them.
Slowly you will get over that CRAVING for presenting that fear to others, and go on to satisfy some other desire like in maslows pyramid of hierarchy (again, do some research if you dont know what that is). Violant tendancies exist naturally just like many other things, and they seem to go away or come back depending on extremes or situations.
Violence doesnt just mean physical acts does it? Doesnt yelling hurtful names or threatening someone, or use of words to coherce, manipulate, or otherwise hurt someone else make them violent? I guess in sense, yes, per-se, it is violent, but now we're defining something different, but nevertheless it is violent and hurtful, and violence is usually intended for someone or something else to be hurt or physically altered.
Punishment is used, for a long time, and still is, punishment in the form of violence. Corporal punishment and capitol punishment are still used today. To lay the foundation, Corporal punishment is the physical act of hurting someone to otherwise coherce, discipline, or have them obey a particular standard, norm, rule, law, whatever.
Corporal punishment is still around, it may always be; parents use it to "discipline" their kids on what is right and wrong. I laugh at that type of logical thinking. Corporal punishment is violent, and it is hurtful. It never teaches moral lessons, or real reasons to WHY something happens, it never teaches or explains WHY, but rather it teaches pain and fear. It teaches you to fear that pain, and to not have this pain again, don't do that "bad" thing again, it is "wrong".
Corporal punishment never explains why, or questions the thoughts of what its own actions do, it never means to explain or analyze, just to follow blindly, to conform blindly, to do or not to do this particular thing, because it is "wrong".
Kids who grow up on corporal punishment actually learn to use this fear and type of thinking. To use physical or emotional pain, to have someone fear them, so that way they could get what they need or want, whether that is to satisfy their anger for the day by beating the crap out of you for no particular reason, or to make you seem un-cool to everyone so you'd have to conform to his thinking to seem cool, to blend in with the crowd, so you wont be socially outcasted, or maybe intimidating you to give him some money, to get some food.
Violence breeds more violence, negative thoughts breed more negative thoughts.
Can violence and negativity be beneficial to an indivdual or society or both?
Labels: Philosophy
posted by RXslair at 1:50 PM
1 Comments:
Alot of people are blinded by violence. Blinded from understanding why society dosent accept that behavior, or acton that person has committed. but when do we know when society has made a wrong decision? If you fight back nonviolently will you get far? will you have a voice in the crowd of society? Nope, thats why we are victims of ourselves. Is our "nation" run by us citizens.. or by people who have manipulated others through time, to bieleve what is "right" or what is "wrong". But the people who are blinded by power and the fear of weakness will never learn what is right and what is wrong because society is blinded. Blinded to have the most power and make the decisions... why? to feel accepted.....
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