Argumentative Essay On Violence

Two viewpoints, or extremes, come to mind when discussing violence. One can either view violence as something that is necessary, or one can detest violence with a burning passion. People who insist that violence is necessary in order to move forward, view it as a sort of tool to help push the natural order of things. For those who see violence as a cowardly tactic to control people, violence is a useless display of power and dominance. Yet violence has also been a way to defend oneself from people who pose a threat. This begs the question; at what point does one cross the line from good guy to bad guy when using violence? It’s never that simple, unfortunately, violence is a double-edged sword, and has good aspects along with bad. In the spur …show more content…
On the other hand, you could of decide to take a different course of action and detained him. After all, there was only one man against twenty or more men. It wasn’t the young man’s threat to O’Brien that made him throw the grenade, it wasn’t that he was in danger at that moment in time. It was the violence that resonates with war and the paranoia that grasps a man by the throat and won’t let go. The violence the O’Brien has experienced up until this moment pushed O’Brien to cross the line and murder someone who could potential be innocent. The savagery of violence made him blind and in the process a murderer. It’s true that in war all is fair, but we have to keep in minds the morals that make us human. The inability to kill speaks volumes to of one’s character. Killing another human being is not the only possible way someone can cross the line. In the movie Fight Club, Tyler Durden crosses the line by destroying property, and one could argue the lives of all his followers including the narrators’. Tyler sees his actions as some great deed to people who are caged in the sadness of their normal lives. Blinded by self-proclaimed righteousness, Tyler weaves an incredibly complex scheme to destroy the financial