eradicate violence

“In order to try to eradicate violence, society is doing several things:

• They’ve made the use of physical force to resolve disagreements illegal; for instance, we no longer consider ‘fighting words’ to be a valid excuse for physical retaliation, or approve of dueling or trial by combat.
• They’re making the use of violence for self-defence increasingly fraught with legal perils.
• Some Western countries are progressively outlawing all ‘weapons’ and the concept of what makes something a weapon is getting progressively broader.
• They’re discouraging people from engaging in their own conflict resolution, and encouraging or forcing them to delegate such matters to ‘experts’.”

- God’s Bastard Blog

Comment: The core here is this, by forcing upon our society these requirements we are actually increasing their frustrations and inabilities to handle conflicts. Conflicts often lead to a variety of violent responses, response from as low as verbal violence/attacks all the way up to the physical blows of common social violence. The frustration builds when any type of conflict resolutions are further hindered and blocked by progressively greater legal repercussions through vague laws that allow anyone in the system to persuade those same folks suffering from frustrations so that they make inappropriate decisions toward what is perceived as self-defense and if this confuses you then imagine how confused those judging your actions will be if forced into self-defense. Then add in that most would not resort to self-defense at the higher levels of force if they were simply taught and trained to handle conflict with appropriate conflict management skills. Not skills made up by those who have no clue, no true knowledge and no experience in conflict and violence but skills trained and taught by those who live and breathe this world. It is righteous to work to end conflict and violence yet when the existence of humans and animals all come from conflict and violence as a management skill set due to the natural friction we all feel when encountering others but also as a natural means to resolve at the lowest level because we have knowledge, training and ongoing experiences that allow us to vent and control our frustrations thereby reducing adrenal stress driven monkey dance responses makes for a better world. True physical violence most often comes from a lack of conflict management skills.