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Vigilance for Violence

parison. Of conspiracies vicarious, is readily avail-
B and related transactional able. From fact to fiction, According to one inter-
R criminalities on the dark 24/7 infotainment deliv- national organization,
O web, the complex nature ers gruesome and horrific viciousness that injuries

W of criminal behavior be- forms of violence, as well others is expanded to in-
A comes quite extensive. as psycho-expressions of clude the malevolent gain-

R With every aspect of hu- terror. News, movies, tele- ful aims of the misuse of
D man inclination to illicit vision, reading and writ- power. As such, the specu-

activities, the potential ing, violent things happen lative realm of psycho-
U and actual infliction of regularly. logical harms comes into
N violence remains present. further consideration. By

I At one end of the discus- To apply the word vio- speculative, this is meant
V sion, it could mean a very lence to the human race, it to suggest that there are
E basic sense of physical is suggested that a number no absolutes in an effort

R force intended to damage of aspects are implicated to fully define or delineate
S inanimate materiality, or in various social interac- the total ramifications of

I injure or kill another per- tions. As a means of harm, human motivation, as to
T son. Such expression may damage, and abuse, inflict- ultimate causes and sub-
Y also refer to those actions ing injury to another is sequent effects. Within

designed to cause depra- willful, premeditated and the scheme of the nature
2 vation to another, a group intentional. Its purposeful of causal factors, there is

0 or a community. attack upon others is from a diverse range of philo-
2 a selfish perspective de- sophical assessment. Most
0 Other people in various signed to give the perpe- likely, any discussion

ways can harm people. trator something in return. of human violence will
Again, by way of persis- From the classical school invite the many specula-

tent redundancy, whether of criminology, violent tions from the fields of
by physical or psychic behavior is the result of a criminology, sociology
trauma, malevolence rational process of think- and psychology. As all

can terrorize by differ- ing. There are no excuses, perspectives are debatable,
ent means, directly or no matter what theoretical some schools of thought

indirectly, as victims re- construct someone tries deem theirs less arguable
act individually. Plenty to invent to mitigate the than others. However, the
of violence is seen every aftermath. This of course assertion made here is that

day. By expression in one relates to illicit and unlaw- these are the spheres of
form or another, actual or ful injurious behaviors. pseudoscience and not real

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