Violence, Sarita Madrid

I thought to write about this just as a reflection of how I feel about violence in general. This morning I viewed a Snapchat story this morning that was taken last night where multiple people were hitting a guy in a fast food store. Seeing fights or people get hurt, whether or not it was "deserved" or not, makes me thoroughly upset, which as a side note is why some of the class movies have been hard to watch. I really can not stand seeing people in pain and I am clueless as to why someone would want to inflict this pain upon another. Why are people so angry or so helpless that they feel the NEED or even the desire to hit someone? Why are people so unforgiving or why can they not communicate? What is going on that makes them think hurting someone else is even an option? I also have so many questions for the people present. Why do people just stand there? Why do they not intervene? Why do they instead record this? Don't they know that if they are just standing by it is almost as though they might be helping with the beating since they are not stopping it? I am somewhat repulsed to how people have become so jaded to violence and hurting others.

This is a minor influence but I think it is interesting how we talked about violence in psychology class and how video games, television, and the media have influenced our perception of violence and its' acceptability. Men are supposedly born with an innate characteristic of protection and women supposedly the innate personality trait of being nurturing and caring. Where are these traits when they matter in situations like these? When I think of a man and what he should be and stand for, I cannot imagine him standing on the side recording and not doing a thing. Deep down, I feel like people have to know it's wrong but at the same time some people might have been raised to utilize violence "if necessary." Society influences me to feel helpless at times as I watch them do anything about things that they should be acting out against. I think that sometimes I do not understand how others cannot feel anything enough to make them act when others are being hurt. Granted that "he may have deserved it," I think that is a different story and I feel as though hitting someone does not resolve the real issue at hand whatever that may be.



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