Design Response
Argumentitive Essay
Our Fascination With Violence
INTRODUCTION:
Many scholars have claimed that modern society is much less violent than in periods of the past. Warfare has become more costly and morally challenged, and therefore rarer. However, even though we might not be practicing violence on a massive scale, it is still entrenched in our culture. Brutal acts have dictated our media for centuries, if not decades. Violence has always been controversial, and yet it has been socially justified at different periods throughout history. On the one hand, we categorize it as the least ethically acceptable act; on the other, we actively pursue it.