Violence - a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.; - The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. http://onelook.com
Wikipedia Violence is the exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse. The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like storms and earthquakes. More frequently the word describes forceful human destruction of property or injury to persons, usually intentional, and forceful verbal and emotional abuse that harms others. Johan Galtung defines violence as "avoidable insult to basic human needs": survival, well being, identity, and freedom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
Brutality - grossly ruthless or unfeeling - the trait of extreme cruelty; - a brutal barbarous savage act;
Some Questions To Ponder:
- What do you feel the underlying values of thuggery and the lynch mob are? - Are criminals that lack empathy for their victims and that use violence conservatives? - Where do you presently see conservative violence and brutality manifesting itself? - How have conservative values failed?
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When conservatives state that they use their values as the basis for their policies, doesn't that open them up for legitimate discussion and questioning?
Am I wrong in saying that Conservative Values have failed?
Are you calling them successful?
what approach would you suggest in discussing the values they say are the basis of all their policies? and how do you grow and learn from your mistakes if you don't question?
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Edwin Rutsch (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 151 comments)
on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 12:32:48 AM
It is only an ultimate goal, an end in itself, that makes the existence of values possible. Metaphysically, life is the only phenomenon that is an end in itself: a value gained and kept by a constant process of action. Epistemologically, the concept of “value” is genetically dependent upon and derived from the antecedent concept of “life.” To speak of “value” as apart from “life” is worse than a contradiction in terms. “It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of ‘Value’ possible.”
In answer to those philosophers who claim that no relation can be established between ultimate ends or values and the facts of reality, let me stress that the fact that living entities exist and function necessitates the existence of values and of an ultimate value which for any given living entity is its own life. Thus the validation of value judgments is to be achieved by reference to the facts of reality. The fact that a living entity is, determines what it ought to do. So much for the issue of the relation between “is” and “ought.”
Now in what manner does a human being discover the concept of “value”? By what means does he first become aware of the issue of “good or evil” in its simplest form? By means of the physical sensations of pleasure or pain. Just as sensations are the first step of the development of a human consciousness in the realm of cognition, so they are its first step in the realm of evaluation.
The capacity to experience pleasure or pain is innate in a man’s body; it is part of his nature, part of the kind of entity he is. He has no choice about it, and he has no choice about the standard that determines what will make him experience the physical sensation of pleasure or of pain. What is that standard? His life.
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Darren Wolfe (5 articles, 155 quicklinks, 93 diaries, 695 comments)
on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 10:14:48 PM
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