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Originally Posted by August
You really think that without those scriptures to justify their actions that people wouldn't still do all those bad things?
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Violence would still take place if we stop calling for violence. But we see even more violence when we actively call for it, and motivate it by sending an according explciit message. Did I say "probably"?
It's bad enough that there is violence emerging for various reasons. But we must not even explicitly ask for it, and train groups of people for it, and lowering people's internal inhibition levels. Most people, if not all, have an inbuild inhibition level, and before they start to not care anymore for smashing open other people's skulls or hacking off their limbs or shooting bullets at them, they need to live in a social context that desensitizes and deafens their senses (for example the proverbial violent social low-class suburbian with youth gangs and high poverty, or a tribal primitive communityx where sacrificing humans is a cultural habit), or they need to get psychologically brainwashed (professional military training).
Spiking emotions, rage, passion, uncontrolled anger however always can make us lose our learned self-control or our inbuild inhibitions failing. Some sooner, others later.
But still - it is not the same.