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The Violence of Pity
People often turn against or away from people who are suffering in order not to feel their suffering themselves, and so as to cause them further suffering in turn for making them feel their suffering. This, along with conformism, is what brings people who are not evil themselves to take part in... Read more ...
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The Power to Hurt
There is only one reason why anyone ever wants to hurt another for its own sake, and it is to feel powerful over them, and it does not matter to them who the person they hurt is as long as they feel they can hurt them, so that anyone who is vulnerable will do. One can therefore always take away... Read more ...
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Shame and Evil
For many the greatest cause of evil is the shame at evil already committed, as shame may cause not only despair of becoming a better person, but also self-hatred, and because others’ feelings are also our own, hating others can be a way of hating ourselves. Shame may make it harder for us to fa... Read more ...
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Domestic Abuse, Red Card it!
This blog is in conjunction with the Red Card Campaign on Twitter. Scotland’s domestic abuse statistics rise by 80% after a Rangers and Celtic football match was reported by assistant Chief Constable Neilson of Strathclyde Police. During an Old Firm match serious and violent crim... Read more ...
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Anarchic Mercy
Love this, from Rowan Williams via Inhabitatio Dei : "To believe in Jesus' God, the God of unconditional accessibility and even-handed compassion, to believe in an anarchic mercy that ignores order, rank and merit , is to accept that our projects and patterns are the mark of f... Read more ...
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Rewards and Other Ways
This week's Parshah (Torah portion):Moses' great-nephew is rewarded for his zealotry; he receives a "covenant of peace" because he killed a prince and princess from two non-Hebrew tribes who indeed posed a serious threat to Moses and his people. In the Torah, the vav (ו) in the word "shalom" (שלו... Read more ...
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Violence
I broke up with him a few months ago and ever since he's been stalking me every day "As long as he's not violent there's not much we can do" the police say and "Try not to worry he'll probably get tired of this soon" after they told him to leave here in a h... Read more ...
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A Day So Unkind
Just an ordinary morning breakfast kiss and off to school One last wave before the bend and gone her long hair flapping in the wind A day like everyday chores groceries and preparing dinner She's late where could she be another worried peer along the street ... Read more ...
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Collective Violence - Examples - Part V
It's been another month since I last blogged about mob violence, which continues pretty well unabated. Below are some of the latest incidents reported, and some commentary on the phenomenon by others. (And here's why I'm doing it.) I won't be making the Girardian connections for eac... Read more ...
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Religion and Polarity
Tim Townsend's "Love Thy Neighbor: The religion beat in an age of intolerance" in the May/June 2008 issue of Columbia Journalism Review , is worth the read, in light of the Jeremiah Wright drama and the fundamentalist Mormon news of late here in the U.S., and the ongoing and manifold religio... Read more ...