The reading on violence touched on the ideas of social engineering despite it being two different topics when compared with what we talked in class. We have been talking about how school, since the elementary school years whether private or public actually develop ideas of superiority and inferiority among different ethnic groups. We see how it’s from the educational system that stems the different ideologies of discrimination such as the model minority that we talked about during the beginning of class. At the same time the article touched on the idea that it’s the military system that conditions some of the most gruesome serial killers and it goes above and beyond to cover their records. For example with the sniper shooters, all the techniques used are taught in the military and they are trained to not have emotions, essentially they desensitize them to have a fight response at all times. Furthermore, the hatred and mistreatment the “yellow” people (Asians) stems from the Vietnam War that the United Sates funded military wise. Furthermore, many of the mass murders tend to be white males and even now a days when the killer belongs to a minority group they use derogatorily terms but when it’s a white male they put the blame on other things despite them such as their mental state, once gain even when a gruesome crime is committed they are still being protected.
Question: If more programs were built during our educational years that dealt with bettering of the mental health would it potentially decrease the amount of bloody catastrophes that occur?
References
Haddock, V. (2006). The Science of Creating Killers: Human reluctance to take a life can be reversed through training in the method known as killology. SFGate.com. Retrieved from https://m.sfgate.com/science/article/THE-SCIENCE-OF-CREATING-KILLERS-Human-2514123.php (image)
Hamamoto, Y. D (2003). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence. Boggs Carl Education. Retrieved from https://canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/299229/files/ folder/ Week%20of%20Readings/Week5?preview=4936659
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