Emergency Mindset

I watched the first one and found it interesting, its a good startign point for a debate.

I think that the point about people who have been involved in fighting or violence as children being predisposed to violence themselves due to the nurture effect of the environment is not 100% true. From reading Meditations on Violence, Rory Miller the author, argues in the opposite direction saying that a high proportion of people who are abused as children go on to continue the cycle of abuse because they develop a victim mentality, i.e. the beating/abuse will be over quicker if you let it happen.

There are those with a mindset which would go the other way and see their abuse as justification to abuse others also i.e. this happened to me this must be normal I'll do it on others.

And there are complete psychos. Miller talks about children who have no reaction to any punishment, and there are cases where parents who have been tried for abuse have argued that they were driven to violence against the child because literally nothing else got through to them and even then the beating would not stop future bad behaviour. Miller does say he doesn't condone child violence in any way but advocates that any child that does consistently breaks rules and boundaries has an issue and should be sent for medical help.

All these points of view are logical to me and make sense. I like how morris goes on to say that even people who have naturally become able to use this mindset of agression and violence should not rely upon it and should look to cultivate a control over it.

I'll have to watch the rest later but i liked that one and thought it had some very interesting points.