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%RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE 760506
Often problems (dilemmas?) cannot be solved in a
direct way. Focusing attention on the symptom of the
problem may be foolish; e.g., attempting to surgically
remove chicken pox marks, or the self-conscious person
trying to become more self-conscious to over-come self-
consciousness. To solve problems we must deal with the
roots of the problems, not just the symptoms---even when
it is the symptoms which are the problem to us.
Some people regard violent behavior as a problem.
Violent behavior is a problem to the victim of the
violence; yet such behavior is but a symptom of the real
problem which is alienation. Authoritarian ways of dealing
with violence commonly aggravate the real problem---and so
increase alienation and violence. The roots of violence
need to be identified so that we may avoid nurturing
future violence. Violence originates in the breakdown of
human communication. To reduce violence we must work to
broaden and deepen authentic human communications. People
who have been afraid to reveal themselves must be given
the security needed to encourage them to take the risk to
reveal themselves--and must be accepted when they do
reveal themselves. Only then will human alienation and
violence decline.
Society needs to protect itself against the damage of
violent members of society; but the means of protection
must not aggravate the alienation which is the source of
that violence. Too often the methods advocated by "law-
and-order" enthusiasts are methods which reduce, rather
than increase, human communication and mutual
understanding. The criminal is separated from society,
rather than helped to be in fuller communication with
society. The agents of "law-and-order" become separated
from the society---rather than integral members of its
daily activities. The roots of violence are well nourished
when the policemen, lawyers, judges, and prison officials
are alienated individuals---profiting from the processing
of another class of alienated individuals. Such
nourishment of agents will insure that such profit will
increase---until the whole system destroys itself through
the violence it promotes; unless the foolishness of the
profits and the system are recognized and dealt with---by
appropriate indirect ways which promote genuine human
communication within a context of trust and mutual
acceptance.
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