society increasingly abhors

“Violence is also something that our society increasingly abhors – and we forget how rare this attitude is, geographically and historically.” - God’s Bastard

Comment: Only in the highest of societies hierarchal make up do we find a disconnect from our societal need for violence. It is at this level that the attitude is that violence and conflict are bad and at this level when it is needed to get them what they want they are more than willing to allow it as long as someone else’s commits the violence.  We tend to using “Others” to do our bidding so we don’t soil our hands and our minds with conflict and violence. We create distance between us and that world yet we employ those who can commit violence to achieve our security. Violence makes our sense of self feel disgust yet we can easily and readily accept our decisions to have “Others” commit atrocities in the name of safeguarding our way of life. Something seems out of synch, don’t you think?