Violence: Why People Are Naturally Violent People

Humans are drawn to acts of a primal nature. Raw, passionate, and vastly entertaining; primal instincts have always been at the root of human behavior. Archeologists say that the first humans were found with spearheads embedded in their ribcage. Mankind’s curiosity will always be sparked by the thought of bloodshed. Just look at the entertainment we as a species hold most dear; violent action films, movies about war, videogames based solely on the concept of killing the opponent, the list in never-ending. The fascination around violent acts is understandable. Since the invention of society, the act of killing another human has been frowned upon by the rest of society. The contrast of the acts of violence to the norms of everyday life are hard

Why are we drawn to the many different facets of violence that we experience in our lives? Is violence a learned behavior or has it become a part of our evolutionary progression. As hunters and gatherers, we used violence for survival. Now, it seems that humans react with violence to resolve multiple types of conflict. Is it just primal instinct? Does our subconscious ‘fight or flight’ control the way

Violence is one of the most necessary elements to life. It can be as vital as water, and as regenerating as a long deserved sleep. It is the ultimate balance to the human life. Violence is possibly one of the most perverted and tainted virtues that exists today. Like all values, there is a time and place for them. The hardest part of any virtue is its proper administration.

What has America come to? Although the articles, “We’re No.1(1)!” written by Thomas Friedman, and the article “Violence is Who We Are,” by Steven Crichley, have different overall subjects, they have a similar arguments. The world isn’t as great as it used to be, we are lacking good leadership, and we happily invite wrong doings into our lives.

2 B R 0 2 B Poster Blog The poster above is on a famous quote from the short story 2 B R 0 2 B written by Kurt Vonnegut. The quote is ‘The law says that no newborn child could survive... unless someone would volunteer to die.’ 2 B R 0 2 B is a short story about a dystopian world.

The brain is the most important organ for regulating human behavior and thought. The brain is very complex and has taken centuries to discover how it functions. The brain is separated into four distinct regions or lobes. These regions are called the frontal lobe, the occipital lobe, the temporal lobe, and the parietal lobe. The frontal lobe is located directly behind the forehead and is the brain region that controls higher level thinking such as memory, planning, and judgment. The frontal lobe also contains motor cortex which allows voluntary movements. Another vital brain region is the occipital lobe. The occipital lobe can be found in the back of the brain. Its job is to process and store visual information. The occipital lobe

Often, violence gets the best of people and they get angry or frustrated and want to take it out on people by fighting aggressively. Humans are savage and cannot control themselves when it comes to violence which breaks out fights between

This, however, can be seen as an instinct for survival. Take Johnny from “The Outsiders”. During one of the scenes, Ponyboy and Johnny are being bullied by the Socs for walking Cherry and Marcia. As they continue to bully the two boys, the group of Socs decide to try to drown Ponyboy, and while the scene plays on, Johnny stabs a Soc to protect his friend. Even though Johnny is not a naturally violent boy, in that instant he was, because in that moment and time his only goal was to protect Ponyboy. In real world situations, sometimes this is the reasoning behind someone’s death. There is always a reason for someone to choose to be violent and use a weapon to get what they want, and sometimes it is purely an instinct to pull that trigger, because if they don’t, they might die. Humans are still animals, and when it is needed, the animal instinct to survive will kick

The books Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus and Testimony by Victor Montejo describes the lives of two individuals from different societies. In both of these societies there was much hardship and violence. The two main characters who wrote these books describe life through their point of view and explains the hardship and challenges they had living in a society filled with violence.

The current event I examined, from an online scientific news database, exemplified research on evolutionary biology of humans and the roots of violent nature. The article, “Nature or nurture: is violence in our genes?”, discusses how scientists recently researched if savage behaviors in homo sapiens are hereditary. Considering that lethal violence is closely related to the linage of primates, specifically monkeys and apes, it’s no surprise that humans also exhibit similar behaviors to these ancient ancestors. The Spanish researchers which conducted this analysis examined over four million deaths in various species of primates and mammals investigating the amount of brutal deaths in each. For accuracy, the investigation included human population from the stone age till present day. As a result, the researchers saw an increase in violent deaths or killings as they examined more recent primate groups. Concluding, the tendency for violence in humans is indeed phylogenetically inherited. On the other hand, while the article highly focused on the genetic aspects of violent human behaviors, near the end the article also acknowledges environmental factors. Besides being inherited, social and territorial tendencies also increase levels of

The nature versus nurture debate is an ongoing debate among social scientists relating to whether ones personality/personal characteristics are the result of his/her inherited genetic traits or the result of environmental factors such as upbringing, social status, financial stability, and more. One of the topics that are discussed among psychologists is the study of violent behavior among people as a whole, and in particular, individuals. Social scientists try to explain why people commit acts of violence through explanation of either side of the nature or nurture schools of thought. However, the overwhelming amount of research done into the relation of violent behavior and the nature versus nurture debate indicated that nurture is the primary explanation to explaining violent behavior because violent traits are learned from adults, someone’s social upbringing is a major factor to why some people are more violent than others, and finally influences from news media, movies, and video games enhance the chance for someone to exhibit violent behavior. In conclusion, violent behavior is a complex issue without a clear explanation that is overwhelmingly supported by the nurture side of the debate.

Most of the time, the public says that violence is not the answer to a problem or a dilemma but, it is also important to know why do people resort to it. As seen in the famous novel by William Shakespeare, “Romeo And Juliet,” it can be as simple as a priority or it can be for someone you truly love or care about such as family and friends. A Fight or a quarrel always has some kind of reasoning behind it. It just does not appear magically. So, the next time we see say, “I’m gonna knock you down!” to someone, lets take a minute to ask

We kids can be beaten, shot, or kidnapped. There are countless numbers of causes to violence. Though, one of the main causes is anger, because it leads to many things. People would kill for defense or revenge. Some people can't deal with their anger or issues, they take it out on others. It has become worses now that there are bullies, gangs and weapons.

his reputation in Hollywood with 1995's Se7en.Unlike that Brad Pitt thriller, however, Zodiac is relatively free of the action, quick cuts and high-tech camera work that made Fincher a favorite of crime film fans. If anything, Zodiac is nearly three hours of people talking and chasing dead ends and bad leads."It's still scary," Fincher says. "But I've done movies where my process of making the movie hindered it. I enjoyed this more than Panic Room because we don't get away from the story."Perhaps that's because Fincher, who was raised near San Francisco, remembers being 7 and riding in a police-escorted school bus after the Zodiac suggested in a letter to the press that "school children make nice targets."The experience, he says, molded

Behavioral neuroscience or biological psychology employs the principles of brain pathology to the study of human behavior through genetic, physiological, and developmental operations, as well as, the brain’s capacity to change with experience. Since the second world war, crime was largely attributed to mostly economic, political, and social factors, along with what psychologists termed at the time, the “weak character” of mental disturbance, and brain biology was rarely considered. However, new advances in neuroscience and technology have allowed a number of studies that link brain development, impairment, and injury to criminal violence. This emerging field of psychology explores the brain at a microscopic level, focusing studies on the roles that the brain’s neurons, circuitry, neurotransmitters, and basic biological processes play in defining and molding all human behavior.