Violence

Violence refers to acts —typically connotative with aggressive and criminal behaviour —which intend to cause or is causing of injury to persons, animals, or (in limited cases) property. Harm to non-human animals may be considered violence, though this depends on the social mores related to animal cruelty, and the situational context in which such acts take place. The concept of "violence" can also be extended to any abuse, including even non-physical verbal abuse. Damage to property is typically considered minor relative to violence against persons.

Related Topics:
Aggressive - Criminal - Injury - Property - Animal cruelty - Abuse

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Violence falls into essentially two forms —random violence, which includes unpremeditated or small-scale violence, and coordinated violence, which includes actions carried out by sanctioned or unsanctioned violent groups —as in warfare (ie. inter-societal violence) and terrorism. Since the Industrial Revolution, the lethality of modern warfare has steadily grown to levels considered universally dangerous. As a practical matter, warfare on a massive scale is considered to be a direct threat to the prosperity and survival of individuals, cultures, societies, and the world's living populations.

Related Topics:
Sanction - Warfare - Terrorism - Industrial Revolution

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In specific regard to warfare, journalism, because of its increasing capability, has served to make matters of violence which were once in the domain of the military into moral matters within the domain of the society at large.

Related Topics:
Journalism - Military - Moral matters

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Transculturation, due to modern technology, has served to diminish the moral relativism typically associated with nationalism, and in this general context a international "nonviolence" movement has gained in social promience.

Related Topics:
Transculturation - Moral relativism - Nationalism - Nonviolence

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