Brave New World Violence Analysis
Evaluating Violence When deciding whether violence is ethical or justified, there are several factors that must be considered. There is not a simple answer to any scenario and each scenario must be evaluated carefully and thoroughly. Torture has proven to be an extremely effective tool so putting an all out ban on it would have quite a few repercussions, especially in the war on terror. Could the United States really justify losing access to terrorist information in order to be more humane? Each author brought up very good points for each side of the argument. Yoo explained how the Geneva Convention does not apply when dealing with the war on terrorism because Al Qaeda is not a nation nor do they have any interest in abiding by the
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I have been thinking about this question after reading the 3 texts and it seems the only way for violence to be completely eliminated would require every last person in the world to obey. Once one person shows violence, they must be stopped. Police must use violence in order to prevent someone else from using violence. If one person were to behave violently, then they would cause the police to behave violently which would meant the society isn’t violence free. Total utopia isn’t possible because humans have free will. The only way for a utopia to be accomplished is to control the population and take away their free will. In the book “Brave New World” they had a utopia society because every person was born to complete a specific task based on their intelligence level which was determine by the government. People with manual labor jobs were happy and people with higher level jobs were happy all because they knew nothing different from that way of life. People in the world know they have the freedom to choose what they want to do so a lifestyle like that cannot be created. Obviously in the real world this is not possible and it wouldn’t be right to do anyways. The only reason they had a utopia was because the citizens didn’t know any different and if they did, they definitely wouldn’t be happy with the government controlling every aspect of their lives. So my conclusion is no, a violence free society is not possible because people have free will as well as emotions. Anger is a natural human emotion that has a huge role in causing violence. Emotions cannot be removed from an entire society. Everyone gets angry for all kinds of reasons and violence is a product of anger therefore violence cannot be eliminated. Sure there’s plenty of excessive violence that could easily be avoided and even some that may be necessary to benefit the majority, but total elimination just isn’t going to
I have been thinking about this question after reading the 3 texts and it seems the only way for violence to be completely eliminated would require every last person in the world to obey. Once one person shows violence, they must be stopped. Police must use violence in order to prevent someone else from using violence. If one person were to behave violently, then they would cause the police to behave violently which would meant the society isn’t violence free. Total utopia isn’t possible because humans have free will. The only way for a utopia to be accomplished is to control the population and take away their free will. In the book “Brave New World” they had a utopia society because every person was born to complete a specific task based on their intelligence level which was determine by the government. People with manual labor jobs were happy and people with higher level jobs were happy all because they knew nothing different from that way of life. People in the world know they have the freedom to choose what they want to do so a lifestyle like that cannot be created. Obviously in the real world this is not possible and it wouldn’t be right to do anyways. The only reason they had a utopia was because the citizens didn’t know any different and if they did, they definitely wouldn’t be happy with the government controlling every aspect of their lives. So my conclusion is no, a violence free society is not possible because people have free will as well as emotions. Anger is a natural human emotion that has a huge role in causing violence. Emotions cannot be removed from an entire society. Everyone gets angry for all kinds of reasons and violence is a product of anger therefore violence cannot be eliminated. Sure there’s plenty of excessive violence that could easily be avoided and even some that may be necessary to benefit the majority, but total elimination just isn’t going to