More about Violence Part 2

At the other extreme, we have an opposing personality orientation that values love of life as in Jesus Christ and Mother Teresa. With these individuals, there’s a strong tendency to preserve life and to battle against sickness, disease and death. With this dynamic, there’s also exists a tendency to integrate, to unite, and to fuse with different and opposite entities. Growth is dependent upon having a future. With growth, we have an attraction to the process of life, which is to construct rather than to retain; experiencing adventure as opposed to living with certainty. In other words, life approaches the functional and the individual strives to mold, to influence by love, rationality and reason. In essence, we have a duality between the motivation to kill, hurt and disrespect self and others; verses, the drive to love, respect and give beyond oneself. With this duality of poles, we have significant degrees, mixtures, and blending’s of the two extremes. Aspects of the duality can be expressed not only in physical behavior, but in conversation, tweets, slips of the tongue, thoughts, attitude, feelings, dreams, and fantasy. Sometimes one trend of the duality becomes more dominant over the other. In fact it can even extinguish the other. Negatively, it’s like a hardening of the heart in that the love of death seems to be logical and a normal response per one’s life experience, which is essentially a passion to destroy humanity. Further, this negative aspect in man can become the dominant force and when that happens, it becomes malignant and psychopathological. Perhaps, instead of focusing on the typical political talking points regarding the Florida shooter, we should be focusing on the contradictory aspects of the nature of man. Long-live death as a norm should not be our motto.