what do you think about this!!!?

Question

Violence is a very complicated topic not only to discuss it but to think about it. People have different concepts of why violence exists and one idea can contradict another. To me violence it’s a signal that we as society are doing something wrong. It was hard for me to conclude what are causes and effects of violence but I believe that media, presence of firearms at home and domestic violence are the three strong roots of violence.


Television programs where violent scenes are present create a violent feeling to its viewers. The parents, on the other hand, with the enormous responsibility of work have left the television and video games as babysitters not giving their children the time and love that they need and instead a time of television they do not need at all.

To have guns at home its a risk. Perhaps the greater error as far as the firearms is the idea that they are useful and indispensable for self-defense. A firearm at home is usually use against a member of the family and in my opinion can increase the possibility of suicide.

Let us not confuse familiar violence with familiar conflicts. The discussions, fights and differences of opinion, are normal in the interpersonal relations, as long as they are not solved violently. The familiar violence can be pronounced of many ways. Most common they are: towards the women, between the spouses, towards the old ones, the minors and the disable people. The members of a family influence in the development of the personality of the children and of whom they cohabit, therefore, a person who lives in a dysfunctional family is going to be violent in all activities. The children normally undergo all the consequences of the problems of their parents, although they are not the direct victims.

In moral matter the violence affects and destroys the values of the family, attempting against the human freedom. To me family is love and in love it is not possible to be mediocre, aggressive or violent.

Answer 1

i do not necessarily agree with you statement about dysfunctional families, dysfunction is not strictly related to violence, i know for fact that just because a person is violent does not mean they learned it at home and a parent is not always responsible for the condition of a child. My sons were 5 and 6 yrs. when we had a home invasion (mistaken address) , one child turned to food as comfort over the years, the other became extremely violent. 12 yrs of therapy and psychiatry did nothing. This is the age/stage where kids start to learn and comprehend "Trust". Had we gotten any Justice at all, these kids might have felt safe/secure. Instead they learned these people basically go free (4yrs in a half way house, allowed out to work from 9am-6pm). And i was left to raise 2 total strangers, not the children i brought into this life. I lost everything i owned trying to pay to save their sanity and lost. As for guns, the majority of murders in Canada, are stabbings and beatings, if someone has murderous intentions they don't need a gun and if it's not there they will use what's at hand. Let's start by applying the laws as written. Familiar Violence?, you say, i trained as a PSW, we were taugh that violence and abuse in seniors facilities is ileagal, but we were also taught, if we chose to report it, we would find ourselves Blacklisted by basically all homes and agencies. One gent, who had suffered a stroke, i witnessed the abuse ( i was doing my hours for certificate) i did not dare to report it, i was 4 yrs at school. I walked in and volenteered to take over his care, in all my free time. I was denied, but they would use me all over the home. I of course left to work for the public, i could not tolerate working these places and very few are without and i swore to god, niether of my parents would ever go to one. As for tv only we have that power, but as usual we're to busy, lazy, uncaring ( i realy don't know) to do anything about it. And Family, is not always held in the same reguard as it use to be. There are more dysfunctial families today, than there are functional. The reason we have so many psychiatrists today, is because at one time families took the time and emotion to do this job, if women were paid a decent wage to stay home with the kids, it would leave many more jobs for singles, teens and men, kids and society would be so much better off. Society desperately needs an overhaul, the longer we wait the worse it's gonna get. Money, money, money and the almighty dollar is what it's all about.

Answer 2

Mankind has always been a violent creature...there are no few recorded times in history that we can say there was ever any true peace. Domestic violence is becoming though very popular in American society, though it has been around for ages as well, the culprit is not guns or television or video games but lack of communication and sticking to that as a way to resolve issues. A gun in the home is great idea if you tend to them and lock them properly, if someone kills themselves it's the matter of the family why, its not the gun's fault. Society has to learn to become more tolerant and more open to discuss matters that escalate to violence...

Answer 3

Thanks, but we do not live in an utopia. Our world is made up of numerous different cultures, dialects, races, and so many spiritual concepts that even Satan would have said "stop." Nevertheless, I personally enjoyed reading your statement. You have a gifted sense of balance and I hope you exercise this to the fullest. I am in the latter part of life (upper60's) and when there is a change in this world's preoccupation with death and violence then I'll probably say I seen this long before the TV made it into news. Everything other than a new birth is only a repeat of something larger, that is still in it's infancy, World War III. Volunteer Counselor Western Illinois University

Answer 4

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're making a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be. Sure, I don't agree with some of the things that Kokoro, Daoshi, and Karate Dave (as well as many other such good individuals here on Y!A) have said, just like I'm sure that many of you have probably disagreed with some of the things I've said. And sure, sometimes we've also said things that we've regretted later, or have said something that probably could have been phrased better. We're human. We make mistakes. We have viewpoints of our own, right or wrong. I accept that people won't agree with me, and maybe because of that I've also accepted that sometimes there will be people for whom it seems their entire existence seems to revolve around dissing other people, even though there seems to be no real basis for their accusations. These individuals here on Y!A (whether "they" really are many separate individuals or just a single person using multiple accounts) bash because they are schmucks, and the more attention we give them, the more they bash. There's a very good reason why the old saying "Don't feed the trolls" is uttered at all (much less as much as it is) around here - as long as they see that what they're doing is bugging you, they're going to continue to do what they do. You don't care what the trolls think about you, so why worry about what they think about anybody else? Just ignore them. Please believe me - they're not worth the aggravation. EDIT: A part of the reason for my saying that I felt you were making a bigger deal out of this that it needs to be is that you keep bringing these kinds of things up. Yes, you might not have *intended* for anybody to think that you were uptight and making a big deal out of it, but that's the way it's coming across, whether you intended it that way or not. If these issues are not that big of a deal, then why talke about them at all?

Answer 5

First, by familiar, do you mean domestic ? When a women beats her husband, that is domestic. Second, focus your train of thought. Third, roots to violence can't be an object or second party. A root must from a primary such as an individuals hunger, insult, lack of respect, crowded, anger, etc.etc.. The TV or the gun is the mechanism.

Answer 6

wow that is alot to chew in one setting.i am against it too