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The more we value the individual the more we will shy away from violence (or, rather, leave it to the professionals like soldiers and cops and criminals)
by circlefavshape 8y ago
The more we value the individual the more we will shy away from violence (or, rather, leave it to the professionals like soldiers and cops and criminals)
- castlecrasher2 8y agoI think we as a society value the individual less and less nowadays, and the decrease in violence is an indicator of that. I mean, who hasn't been defriended or seen someone defriend someone on social media because of conflicting opinions? That's not valuing the individual, that's putting opinions over the individual.
- krapp 8y ago>I mean, who hasn't been defriended or seen someone defriend someone on social media because of conflicting opinions? That's not valuing the individual, that's putting opinions over the individual. It's the inevitable result of a form of abstract social interaction that makes direct physical violence impossible. If it were possible to reach into the internet and actually assault people through the monitor, deaths would probably range in the millions per year.