There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
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Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
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