Toaster126

While I understand the idea you are trying to point out, this is just wrong. Sometimes violence is the best answer. Even if you don't agree with that, surely you can at least say some "truly powerful people" have used power to great success to whatever goals they were trying to achieve.

I think one of the reasons violence is chosen as a course of action is to remove the choice from the person involved (do it or I shoot you/your kid, etc), or to make the choice so lopsided that they go along (do it or you will lose your job, etc). Obviously there are problems maintaining this situation, but as long as you can...

People react more strongly to threats to take something away than they do to rewards.

I'm glad this thread was made. I think people don't realize how much violence plays a part in every interaction humans make. I think a whole bunch of things can be broken down to that point. We are just expressing it in different and more subtle ways now... unless shit hits the fan enough for the gloves to come off. Then we can show we really are just humans.

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