RE: The great shadow over Middle Earth...
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For me, aggression and violence are a sign of weakness and lack of ability to solve problems in a civilised way. At school or in the years after reaching adulthood in the company of friends, I always tried to help resolve disputes between them in a way other than violence.
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Absolutely! It's succumbing to base aggression. Here in Australia there's domestic violence case after domestic violence case. Men asserting their dominance and throwing acid or beating women to death. Weak, fucked up men who can't control their emotions, because they were never taught to. Fix that and we fix a LOT of problems in the world.
I have the impression — though I’m not entirely certain — that violence against women is somewhat lower today than it was five or ten years ago. Or perhaps it’s simply a matter of my immediate environment, where the topic comes up less often and is less frequently heard about. Still, the overall scale of violence remains deeply disturbing.
Where do you live? Last year 100 women were killed in Australia by their partners. One is two many.
I live in Central Europe and I rarely hear about things like this. Maybe it’s because I don’t really follow the topic closely. Or maybe I just don’t want to hear about it, because it stresses and frightens me. It also makes me sad to read about those hundred women in Australia.
Absolutely, yes. Unfortunately this weakness seems to rule the world.
Unfortunately, apart from physical violence, there is also psychological abuse. Bullying, intimidation, and the exploitation of human weaknesses for personal purposes. On a broader scale, this type of violence seems to be more harmful to society as a whole.