Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.