Identity is that a major factor if people take a Violante path ?!?

Question

Citizens of this world
Think Global
Act Local
with Love,love !

Answer 1

I hope I'm understanding your question as you intended ...

Short answer is yes. Violence and Identity are deeply connected.

When you define someone or something as an "enemy", you are also defining yourself. The greater your hatred, the greater your opposition to this enemy, the more powerful the sense of self-definition wrought by this choice of a path tending towards violence.

For some people, especially those who have suffered greatly, this may feel like the only way to define yourself. If you lose your home and family to a particular enemy, for example, it is easiest to strike back. Revenge seems "fair" in such circumstances.

But the apparent appropriateness of revenge, hatred, and violence is, in my opinion, just an illusion. Violence, however motivated, is not fair or just; it is the recourse of the weak and the overwhelmed, as the truly strong can immobilize an enemy and can always afford due process, even mercy.

We can be better defined by what we love.