response 5 Empire of Death

Jesse Lee
Response 5 Empire of Death

 The Empire of Death was a very hard article to read, especially towards the end of the article.
The article is very hard to read because it provides many cases of gruesome murders and acts of violence that were committed by serial killers, psychopaths and some of our men at arms who served the united states armed forces. This article brings up the issues of violence that we as human beings have. Violence is no small matter to talk about. It is often swept under the rug and very often sanitized in media, but this article points out some of the gruesome issues we have with violence. When you train a person to kill, to hunt other humans by means of guerrilla warfare, strategical planning and weapons training, you are preparing that person for a lifestyle of war. It would only be unnatural to throw that warrior into a civil lifestyle. It doesn't make sense to take a person, turn them into a trained killer to only throw them back into a place where killing is a crime. There is another issue with violence that I would rather focus my attention to, and that is the culture of violence in our society. Especially the conditioning of violence for young boys using sanitized violence. We are raised to love and glorify violence. This can be seen in the media many times over. Just look at all the violence in the cartoons, the toy soldiers, the violence in entertainment business such as mixed martial arts. We raise our boys to glorify violence.

My question is: Do you think violence is necessary for humanity to advance civilization?