Violence_Today

Violence Today Violence Today by: Liz Owen “We’re only gonna die for our arrogance, that’s why we might as well take our time.” ~Bradley Nowell Every day, I hear people talking about violence in society. They argue over whether violence in television and movies causes people to be more violent in real life. They shake their heads in dispassionate sorrow at news reports of school shootings, gang violence, homicides, rapes, terrorism, wars, and countless other abhorrent occurrences. They frequently discuss and debate possible solutions to the problem of violence. Violence, in and of itself, will never cease. It exists among all animals. Intraspecies competition is as natural to the human species as it is to any other. Among homo sapiens, things like wars (defined as organized and prolonged conflicts between societies) are a form of population control. However, one must question nature of human violence in regard to the frequency and intensity of violent acts. What is the necessity of brutal and torturous slaughterings, genocide, or cruelty to animals' Do multiple stabbings of an ex lover increase one’s representation in the gene pool' So, why do people commit random acts of senseless violence' Is there anything we, as a society can do to fix this problem' If violence, people, society, violent, things, problem, urges, species, problems, nature, increased, wrong, world, solved, human, benefit, among, always, about, whether, wars, think, suppressing, spend, results, population, own, out, one, must, much, lives, law, itself, intensity, humans