Why Violence?

Why do people turn so quickly to violence and anger? It has become one of the "human conditions" and I personally believe that violence has become as cankerous a tumor on the world as poverty and hunger. It's not just War either. What I'm talking about is the daily abuse, heaped on in miniscule amounts, seen and unseen. I watch every day as people hurt each other, because they are "just playing" and most people accept it! Just because someone gets annoyed or is in a bad mood, they hit each other. It's the attitude of Revenge and Ignorance, that it is acceptable to take out your negative feelings on someone else. People reciprocate, and those who you are kind and patient to will generally be kind and patient back. (There are, or course, exceptions, some people just have trouble being nice)

There is something called patience. An ability admired, but rarely sought after. Long-suffering, patience, and charity are admirable qualities in any person, and increase the respect they gain from others. Wouldn't this be a wonderful planet to live on if every single person treated everyone else with respect, and was patient with the flaws of others? On the other end, think of what it would be like to live in a world where there was no government, friendship was nonexistent, and humankind were beasts, simply because they would allow their anger and impatience to take control of reason. Society simply wouldn't work, not to mention that it would be a miserable way to live.

Psalms 37:8-11, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Galations 5:19-23, Alma 7:23