Violence

[John Scott]

What would be the most common cause of violence?

I would guess, anger. But that isn't an element in all violence. Some people are very rationally violent. They plan out attacks for political purposes, etc.

But still, anger?

[kristeejo]

marriage. ha.

[Julie]

Anger, revenge, and insanity.

[Zap]

I would say anger.

It's a fairly short road from anger to violence, too.

[upsonians]

In my point of view voilance may occur due to several reasons.Dependng upon the mood or conditions.
May be due to family problems, may be due to economical problems, or may be boring time table of life can creat a person voilant.
Mostly people are voilant when they have a lot of work to do.Tension is the main problem of voilance.A common example is talk to a guy who is going for an interview or examination paper, he will reply with such anger that you will think he is mad.And this brings him to voilance.
Political people use the word voilance for their political purposes like creating environment of unsecurness, and voilance.And this is considered as the best tip of success in politics but i disagree to it.

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Arif

[Rankenstein]

Drink

[gannik]

Originally Posted by Rankenstein

Drink

... and drugs.

[Atom]

Originally Posted by John Scott

What would be the most common cause of violence? ...

Ignorance.

[G10]

Atom, I totally agree with that dude.

Ok, as Zap says, the road from anger to violence is a short one but there has to be a reason that triggers the anger in the first place.

Ignorance can also encompass not choosing, or taking the time to understand a situation that then leads to anger and then violence.

[Cricket]

Uncontrolled anger that is often learned at a young age from their surroundings. If you are exposed to violent behavior on a regular basis, especially at a young age, you never learn how to deal with feelings of anger in a normal manner. As an example, children raised in homes filled with domestic violence are statistically more likely to grow up and recreate the same lives as adults.

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by Cricket

As an example, children raised in homes filled with domestic violence are statistically more likely to grow up and recreate the same lives as adults.

I've heard that hundreds of times, but never saw the actual studies that substantiate it.

The reason I doubt it is, my father was physically, um, yeah, abusive. Neither of my sisters nor myself ever became abusive towards our children. The sentiment is, we know how horrible it is to be scared of a parent, so we take extra caution to not put our own kids in the same situation.

[Cricket]

I said statistically more likely to recreate the same lives. For some this will be as the aggressor, and for some it will be accepting the pattern of abuse. I did not say it was conclusive proof of the trend continuing.

http://www.nccev.org/violence/domestic.html

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by Cricket

I said statistically, not conclusive.

Yes, of course. I just feel have a hard time understanding how people who were abused themselves could turn around and do the same thing to others.

[Tanya]

It's just human nature. I don't think there is one cause, or a main one even. Humans are violent, that's it I think.

[John Scott]

Well interestingly there’s a part of the brain in that prefrontal area that responds very rapidly to anger, within 200 milliseconds. And what’s been interesting about anger is it really depends on – it’s been such an emotion that’s really been affected by our cultural environment, so the response in the brain will really vary in regard to whether someone’s able to let loose, if you like, and just let their anger go, or whether they’re trying to suppress it. And if someone’s having a kind of automatic anger response where they’re ready to let it out on someone, you can see activity in a part of the brain called the amygdala which, again, is a very old part of the brain and seems to respond in quite an automatic way to threat-related emotions – so whether we’re feeling scared or we’re actually angry at someone else. But often in humans you’ll also see activity in this frontal part of the brain because we’re so commonly trying to regulate our anger responses – so that seems to be involved a lot of the time with human anger.

They need to remove the Amygdala.

[Cricket]

I get angry, but I do not resort to violence.

[G10]

Originally Posted by John Scott

Yes, of course. I just feel have a hard time understanding how people who were abused themselves could turn around and do the same thing to others.

According to psychologists, this is true, though ok, I don't have the paper at hand but when I did psychology, they had the stats.

It seems like people that were treated like this, something triggers within their brain and they carry out the act so as this time, not to feel like the helpless victim, but to feel like the aggressor.

Not that they are doing it to be inherently evil but they are doing it in a twisted understanding of this time being the one with the power and also, to try to understand the reasoning why they were treated that way.

This is not the case with all violence but it does play a big part in the minds of people that were brought up amongst it.

[Atom]

I was thinking .. if you can imagine a society without ignorance, this society might be one without violence as well.