America - A Violence Society

Introduction

Human is adapted to violence for a long time, a part from the natural disasters. In all generations people have been tortured, deported, abused and starved to death, all by the same kind, humans. Thus, the enormous aggression between mankind endured to the extent of different forms of violence all under the inequality (Nordquist, Pp. 28).

America is often considered as a nation of a violent society. This is due to the fact that there have been many incidents that have portrayed the violent side of Americans. this will be further discussed in the upcoming paragraphs.

Discussion

Assailants advocate that their actions are rightful, a step towards gaining their basic rights and an improved world, the warding off of evil worse than all the victims sacrificed. Violence cannot be rated only as physical aggressions. Violence holds also moral, sexual, financial, spiritual, cultural, and verbal abuses (Rosenberg & Fenley, Pp. 42).

The modern American psyche craves violence because it is an act that expresses our inner rage. History vindicates the criminal. Folk heroes are nearly all bandits, thieves, criminals and miscreants. The true villains of history, and the present, are the law abiding citizens, the lawmakers and those that seek to uphold the laws in the form of policing, judging, imprisoning and punishing the outlaws. If we want to win hearts and minds, we must break the law, the standards and the norms. Violence does not alienate people, laws do (Kleck, Pp. 32).

We live in a profoundly violent society, both in America and in the world at large. To live within the standard American lifestyle is to bare witness to this violence, most times unwittingly, in every aspect of our social lives. We cannot take part in market exchange without extreme violence having been part of the means of acquisition, production or movement of goods. It should not go without saying, as it must be repeated until it is truly understood, that our very way of life, including the land we occupy, is founded on a form of violence that is so complete that it is called a genocide (Adler & Denmark, Pp. 51).

The efficiency to which we are violent only leads us to believe that the violence does not really exist, not as violence so much as progress. If headlines read of a workplace homicide, we shudder in cerebral fear, but of mass extinctions, oil spills, toxic poisoning of water, food and ...