Journal: The disease of violence

Thinking about violence as a disease may be not quite common, but it is a thought that has been supported by many sociologists and psychologists. For them, violence is a highly contagious social disease that causes emotional, psychological and physical damage and turns a peaceful person into a hostile one.
The essence of violence is hatred, anger, rage, and the desire of revenge, all caused by an act of wrongful violence internalized by the victim that suffers from this disease. When we allow ourselves to be filled with these emotions in response to a violent attack, they allow the attacker to do more than just cause physical injuries. The attacker then does emotional and psychological damage as well. He or she has destroy the victim's sense of inner tranquility and stability and this type of destruction generally remains long after the physical injuries healed.
The feeling of violence is the self-inflicted destruction of one's inner peace and undoubtedly violence generates more violence. It is a contagious feeling that can be passed to the others as a felling of no sympathy for the victim. Morevor, a violent victim may seek for revenge against the original perpetrator and can be tempted to take out that anger on family members and friends when emotional situations trigger the violent condition.
Violent people do not have ample social skills to resolve differences peacefully. And everytime a person commits a violent act, the attacker not only causes damage to the victim but becomes a more violent person as well. Every act of violence, whatever its nature, makes the perpetrator more violent. And the contagious nature of violence is capable of infecting the morally rightous of all sort of people, from a police officer, to a petty offender.
If we can treat violence as a disease, we sholud also try to find a cure for it or al least, promote its prevention. Before seending a message at grate scale to the whole world, we should start to treat violence from orselves, individually. A productive way to react to an act of violence is to have the courage to resist the normal impulse for revenge and punishment and to refrain from allowing anger, hatred, rage and vengeance to destroy one's inner peace. What we need to do, is to have a peacefull attitude towards violence itself.