There are so many questions where many people respond saying that a type of person, or an entire group or county should be annhiliated. For example: nuke Iran and Syria, shoot all prisoners of war on the battlefield, execute people who view child pornography. Are we ready for WWIII or what? If the economy is so strong in the US, and there is no military draft, and there has been no recent terrorist massacre of US citizens, why this anger?
My question is: WHY do you think killing is so often proposed as as an answer here, and even in ordinary face to face conversations?
2006-09-02 01:19:13 · 4 answers · asked by TxSup 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Browncoat: You have a point about the desire to kill, but isn't part of civilization also represssing this "instinct"? And why is there more talk of killing as an all purpose solution now?
2006-09-02 01:50:45 · update #1
I'm with you 100% on this. I've never seen so many people so anxious to solve problems with killing. I think it's an environment that's been created in large part to our preemptive attack on Iraq. The Bush administration hasn't help this cause either with their constant sword rattling and leadership by fear. If you don't think like us you're against us. It's sad that some of us have succumbed to this "kill" mentality to solve problems.
2006-09-02 01:30:55 · answer #1 · answered by carpediem 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
violence has actually not resolved more conflicts, more are resolved peacefully...why just the other day my neighbor was blasting his radio at 4am, i asked him to turn it down and he did, this sort of thing takes place all the time. somebody in your way at a store, you say excuse me and the two of you quickly work out a way to let you go by them.
when left to our own devices we often work out our differences in non-violent ways. with all the problems occurring now i find it hard to believe that we would have the number of people over in iraq that we do right now if not ordered to go there by a government.
killing is the easy answer though, and as its been said, you can do an awful lot of harm when you feel you have the moral high ground. "we" also sure seem to like our revenge and no matter how much "we" get it never seems like enough to make up for whatever happened to "us" i use the terms "we" and "us" loosely as in cluster of humans that identify with each other as being a related group.
alot of the posts calling for the nuke this, nuke that stuff to i can't help but think are people just trolling, or are magnificently ignorant about the issue, the people involved, and what a "nuke" is.
we also tend to attempt to "dehumanize" others to ourselves before calling for drastic actions which does make it a bit easier to then call for massive and accept massive violence against each other. recognizing others humanity goes a very long way to reducing violence.
2006-09-02 02:55:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some say violence doesn't solve anything. Nonsense.
Violence has resolved more conflicts and problems than any other option throughout the course of human history. The instinct for violence stems from our roots in pre-history. From the beginning, man has killed man. Usually over finite resources (food, land, water, etc.), but as society has become more "civilized", we now kill one another over ideology.
It's the fear of the "Other". It's them versus us. The natural instinct in the primordial human brain is: kill the Other, kill the threat, kill the offensive thoughts. It's hard-wired into us all, no matter how much you try to deny it.
2006-09-02 01:31:47 · answer #3 · answered by KO 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"No man, no problem" - Joseph Stalin
Observe who said it.
2006-09-02 01:21:48 · answer #4 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋