Violence and its Inescapable Occurrence
Conventional wisdom dictates that traumatic childhood experiences and genetic predispositions make individuals prone to violence. Although this is sometimes true, the realities of violence are convoluted and cannot be understood in such simplistic terms. Violence can take place in both physical and emotional contexts. It can be enacted by means of impulsivity, premeditation, defense, or predation. The diversity of its modes for instigation highlights the most crucial element to understanding violence—there is no sole factor that induces humans to fall vulnerable to its forces.
There are a number of ways violence can originate. Many scientists believe certain critical stages of development are crucial to understanding the onset of violence. An explanation by Dr. Perry of the Feinberg School of Medicine depicts how early familial violence can impact an individual’s predisposition to violence. He …show more content…
The stereotypical stimulants of violence which include alcoholism, drug use, gory video games, and high testosterone levels are not sufficient enough to explain the persistence of violence over an entire life-span. Language, however, is an inescapable reality that serves to exacerbate the spread of violence throughout one’s life. In a study reviewed by Frazer and Miller (2008), “both male and female readers show increased acceptance of rape and battering of women after exposure to descriptions of sexual assault written primarily in the passive voice, compared to readers exposed to active-voice descriptions.” Language employed by society can easily perpetrate a culture of violence. Just as Benjamin Whorf exemplified that the idea that language determines what people think, Frazer and Miller highlighted how the simplest aspects of grammar and syntax can impel people to downplay or even justify horrendous acts of
Conventional wisdom dictates that traumatic childhood experiences and genetic predispositions make individuals prone to violence. Although this is sometimes true, the realities of violence are convoluted and cannot be understood in such simplistic terms. Violence can take place in both physical and emotional contexts. It can be enacted by means of impulsivity, premeditation, defense, or predation. The diversity of its modes for instigation highlights the most crucial element to understanding violence—there is no sole factor that induces humans to fall vulnerable to its forces.
There are a number of ways violence can originate. Many scientists believe certain critical stages of development are crucial to understanding the onset of violence. An explanation by Dr. Perry of the Feinberg School of Medicine depicts how early familial violence can impact an individual’s predisposition to violence. He …show more content…
The stereotypical stimulants of violence which include alcoholism, drug use, gory video games, and high testosterone levels are not sufficient enough to explain the persistence of violence over an entire life-span. Language, however, is an inescapable reality that serves to exacerbate the spread of violence throughout one’s life. In a study reviewed by Frazer and Miller (2008), “both male and female readers show increased acceptance of rape and battering of women after exposure to descriptions of sexual assault written primarily in the passive voice, compared to readers exposed to active-voice descriptions.” Language employed by society can easily perpetrate a culture of violence. Just as Benjamin Whorf exemplified that the idea that language determines what people think, Frazer and Miller highlighted how the simplest aspects of grammar and syntax can impel people to downplay or even justify horrendous acts of