Check out this post from Charles Yallowitz’s blog with the topic, For the Love of Violence
I was trying to decide if I wanted to do this as a thought piece or a poem. The former won because I didn’t think the latter would work too well. This is actually connected to when I did a week on the ‘Perverted Character’ and got some rather visceral reactions. A lot of strong opinions against it, references to real life crimes, refusal of redemption, and the list goes on. I found this odd since I’d written posts on assassins, serial killers, warriors, and many others who solve problems through violence. Not a single condemnation on any of those fictional types and people never brought it into reality.
Now, I already touched on the why and such during that week, so this could end up being a rehash. People would rather battle over sex than touch on the violence. In fact, we couldn’t stay on the topic of violence…
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