How does the Violence of Community Differ from the Violence of Individual?

June 14, 2007 0 comments

The violence of the community differ from the violence of the individual in degree rather than in kind.

Freud states that superior strength of an individual could be overruled by several individuals.

For example, in every country and every nation, an individual who commits a crime creates the end of his or her existence. Sooner or later, police will find out and a person will be caught.

Communities, in contrast, can do it as long as they have a law that allows them to do it.

For example, Russian Communists killed millions of innocent people in concentration camps because they believed those people were the enemies of the nation or simply against of Communist Party and its politics. Communists had rights to kill.

Furthermore, communities in power can rule over schools, the press, and the media, let along with political and religious organizations. They also use the above mentioned institutions to manipulate and channel the feelings of the masses. An individual cannot do it.

However, according to Freud, this community or union must be stable ad sure about controlling the might for the nation. Otherwise, an intelligent individual would try to defeat another to create his or her own unity to dissolve the might, and after his or her fiasco, then another might comes along to prove his or her strength and superiority.

Nevertheless, one ought to remember that as soon as an individual has obtained power and respect in the community, he or she will be not individual itself but the community.

In conclusion, the violence of the community and the violence of the individual “work by the same methods and follow the same purposes” and “[the] only real difference lies in the fact that” violence of community prevails.

Posted by Lisa
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