Violence as an Expression of Aberrant Human Nature or Lack of Civilization - Essay Example

Violence is conventionally regarded as an inhumane and uncivilized action. The societies that acknowledge themselves as civilized or want other societies to consider them civilized, try to stay away from any kind of violence in order to maintain their identity as a peace-loving society. In normal conditions, there is no violence. Violence is there when there is some abnormal condition, its consideration as civilized or uncivilized is to be argued, so, the consideration of violence as an expression of aberrant human nature or lack of civilization is not absolutely true. However, it is seen that civilized nations and societies as well as uncivilized, all are also involved in violence or violent acts. 

No matter for what purpose, war is fought but it necessarily recruits violence. Wars can never be considered nonviolent. Wars are not considered to be fought by uncivilized nations, as the so-called civilized nations as well as the considered uncivilized nations, both have fought wars. Wars have always ended with drastic and annihilating consequences. America started a war against Iraq for the reasons that Iraqi people do have the freedom to lead their lives according to their wills and also that they are under authoritarian government (Whitehead 2004).

For the abolition of the authoritarian government in Iraq, America fought a much violent war, which affected the whole country largely. America is regarded as a civilized nation and is also liberal as it allows freedom to its people but what it has done in Iraq cannot be regarded as an expression of a civilized nation. It has depicted itself as the most uncivilized nation in the world but is extremely violent in Iraq. According to Whitehead (2004), violence is also a cultural expression (1). Violence cannot be associated with a lack of civilization as defined by European authorities.

The regions, which are regarded uncivilized have suffered violence from the so-called civilized nations. Crime is also a form of violence because for doing criminal acts, the criminals are involved in doing violence. Whatever they do whether robbery, murder, or hijacking, they take refuge from violence to do the crime.