Sunday, October 18, 2015

Blog 5

Jingxuan Yang
ASA2 SEC 3
OCT 18 2015

          In “Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence”, the author describes several types of murder in our society. Before reading this article, I was thinking I live in a relatively peaceful society, which has less war, poverty and murder. However, murder, including serial murder, mass murder and race murder, is happening quite often worldwide, especially in the latter half of twentieth century. Just as author said, “the act of murder does not take place in a social vacuum”. Because of social complexity and individual distinction, now I realize that it is impossible to eliminate killings completely in the world. Although murder could not be forbidden completely, I think government should increase penalties on perpetrators. Also, since many murderers are mentally ill, to provide more alleviating pressure, psychological dredge and society care could be a good way to decrease number of potential murderers.

Question:

Is there a good way to tell children or teenagers  about these things? Then they can understand how to protect themselves.


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