As a sidenote to the actual point of your blog, what I find disturbing about this story is the fact that after he shot all those people, the first thing the media started doing was talking about his “ideological” and “religious” motivations, presumably because he is Muslim. The next day a white man opened fire on his colleagues in Orlando and there was certainly talk that the man was crazy, but they did not mention his ideological/religious background at all.
But back to your topic of the power of fear, I struggle every day to really understand what brings someone to murder another. I can understand all of the theories behind it in an intellectual sense, their background, desperation, fear, trauma, but I do not know how they get to that point of actually pulling the trigger. Self-defense is the only thing that makes “sense” to me, but then when our lives are run by fear every little action of another’s can make us feel threatened.
My solution: Get rid of every single gun worldwide and put a moratorium on their manufacture. People might reconsider murdering if they actually have to get blood on their hands. Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The Power Of Fear: Lessons From Ft. Hood
But back to your topic of the power of fear, I struggle every day to really understand what brings someone to murder another. I can understand all of the theories behind it in an intellectual sense, their background, desperation, fear, trauma, but I do not know how they get to that point of actually pulling the trigger. Self-defense is the only thing that makes “sense” to me, but then when our lives are run by fear every little action of another’s can make us feel threatened.
My solution: Get rid of every single gun worldwide and put a moratorium on their manufacture. People might reconsider murdering if they actually have to get blood on their hands.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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