Why do humans, particularly men, continue to perpetrate violence towards those physically weaker than them?
Here we are, 2013, and humans have yet to evolve past their animalistic tendencies, although we have the brainpower to choose not to be violent. The use of superior physical strength against those which are weaker for some sort of personal gain or because of a sense of entitlement is immoral, unethical and should be absolutely unacceptable. Unfortunately, our male dominated societies mostly glorify violence as a means to an end, even as they are decrying it elsewhere. Time for men, and the women who are so inclined, to take control of themselves and their fellow dudes and to stop perpetrating or allow to be perpetrated, torture, rape, beatings, mutilations and killings. The human species as suffered at the hands of fellow humans long enough.
Humans need to evolve.
12 Answers to "Why do humans, particularly men, continue to perpetrate violence towards those physically weaker than them?"
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Singlemom, I wouldn't pay any attention to DozerDan. Hes the resident mysogynist troll, probably a very lonely man with his dogs and girly mags somewhere in a camper in his mom's backyard.
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Actually most male violence is enacted for women. It's proxy violence. Our society is about as male dominated as the southern US was black dominated. Hint: the people doing the work are not the people in charge; the people spending the money are the people in charge and that's women. Men work for women, men fight for women, everything in our society is geared so that men can show off their productivity and ability to protect to a woman; who loves it. Literally.
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If interested, watch on you tube the 'Tree of Life' by Terrance McKenna......it may subject you to a theory you've never heard of before, but well worth the listen.....Ego & Evolution has much to do with it...
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I know that we have violence built into us. I remember flipping channels one time between a nature show and some dumb reality show. One was showing bar brawls that spilled out on the street and the other was showing male moose fighting. Eerily similar. Although I assume the moose weren't drunk.
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Your misandry is exceedingly offensive. Perhaps you could try evolving past hate.
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This is the thing....women are certainly capable of horrible awful, violent things. I am not saying that we are superior. Just that we do not tend to rape, murder, rampage and wage war like men. Lets keep gender out of it- why is violence as a means to an end, still so acceptable when humans are capable of such wonderous things?
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Females do twice as much child abuse, including sexual abuse and MURDER of children. Yet you blame men for violence. You ought to be ashamed of your hate.
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I can neither be glib, nor insightful, with this one. Perhaps it is so abhorrent to me that I would not rather think about it.
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On the other hand we should also recognize the enormous strides in the postive direction we have made in a very few generations. You speak of 'evolution/evolving' but evolutionary changes take eons... not centuries and certainly not decades. However, our social fabric has in just a single century gone from a social 'normal' of women not even being taught to read in the USA, or vote, or work outside the home, take leadership roles in businesses, etc. to a relatively large number of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are female, females outnumber males in college enrollment and college degree achievement. Women have been elected to all of the highest offices except one and that was almost true in 2008 and will almost certainly be true sometime in the next few decades. Things HAVE changed. The vast majority of males do NOT use or condone the use of physical force to coerce someone in a physically weaker position. Most males in our culture treat women as equivalent (not equals becuase an orange does not EQUAL an apple but it is just as valued and valuable) with less and less prejudice for their gender than ever before. So maybe, just maybe, perhaps it would behoove the female gender in our country to give those who DO the right thing and say the right thing credit for it publicly instead of continually complaining that it isn't happening fast enough. Think back 2000 years to just 300 years ago... was much progress made for women during that 1700 years? Then think 300 years to 100 years ago... better but still relatively minimal improvements. The last 100 years? Enormous improvement. Give public praise and respect for good acts and good efforts and methinks you might get a better return than just the constant 'not good enough' comments. Just my two cents on the matter of course.
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Listen, like I said, I have 3 brothers and a son I adore and many men that I love. I know that most men in certain societies do not condone the use of violence and I'm not naive enough to think that we can discuss away a problem which is born from what we are- animals. "Our culture" may not openly accept violence but its still prevalent. Unfortunately, there are far too many cultures where men are almost unrecognizable from the animals we supposedly evolved from and violence is not only acceptable but glorified. And yes, of course I recognize that there are cruel,evil violent women as well but please, there's no comparison (anyone know of a female version of the Taliban?) to the systemic, societal beating down of half of the population in so many countries.
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I guess you missed my point. Condoned violence and violent crime have been dramatically reduced in just 100 years. Dramatically and no where more so than the USA. I agree many cultures and countries have not yet made the same strides if any. The Taliban is a case in point. Males are the physical gender and females the emotional gender. Those are, of course, generalizations but when all is said and done relatively accurate ones. Agreed that strongly patriarchal socities have a significantly greater incidence of 'domestic terror' and 'warlike' behavior. However, my point is we are seeing change. In order to foster that change it behooves us as a society to show public respect and recognition to those positive examples rather than just focus on the negative. You speak of prevalence yet our statistics on crime show a marked decrease decade on decade of violent crime and violence towards women and children in particular. What we have today is a much higher 'notification rate' via media, etc. of violent events. That is a good thing, and a bad thing if ONLY those violent events are highlighted and held up as 'truth'. That is all I'm saying. I am not the man and father I am today because I see the bad examples and the punishments they have received and think "I don't want that to happen to me". No I am who I am because I had an ongoing role model in my life in my father who showed me what a man and father SHOULD be. We need to highlight those men and educate our male children that being like that is noteworthy and praise worthy rather than just point of the child abuser and domestic terrorist.
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still bitter about that divorce, are ya?
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Because I don't like violence??? I have three brothers and a son I adore. I don't hate men. I hate humans who intentionally cause others to suffer, regardless of gender.
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This is a heartfelt post, but you will never change things. The only thing that is going to bring true peace will not be brought about by man's hand. It's just that simple. It is going to take Divine intervention and that's it.
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I agree, its not going to change anytime soon because violence unfortunately is so beneficial to so many, even while the victims suffer. I always wondered though why, in this age where we question and examine all of our self destructive habits- drinking, smoking, overeating- we don't ever have a serious discussion on why violence, which may ultimately lead to the human race's self destruction, is still so prevalent and acceptable, even while we are capable of such astonishing, altruistic, beautiful things.
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It's machismo, plain and simple
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I noticed you left our the catiness of women to those less fortunate, I guess as long as you don't hit all is good, emotional scars don't count, the effect on the children don't count, the frustration of the injustice don't count. Cool babe, lets keep it at a generalization of someone else so you don't have to be near that finger your pointing.
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So, like I tried to say below to someone who took offense much as you did, lets keep gender out of it. All violence against each other is wrong, yet its a choice that is made on many levels every day and brings tremendous suffering. Why is this never addressed as a serious topic?
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Probably cause if they did it against those Stronger than them, the other guys would kick their collective Butts!
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Posted by bijouxbroussard Jan 5th, 2013 at 6:21PM
People who are inclined to bully others perpetrate violence upon those who are weaker than themselves. Women who are so inclined, do. Men who are not so inclined, don't. Statistically it seems like more males are of that mindset, since more men kill women than women kill men. But as you can see from the defensiveness, to discuss it is to be accused of hatred. People are in major denial---both genders.
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Reply by singlemomraps Jan 5th, 2013 at 6:28PM
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