Can an overwhelming use of money to reach personal political gains, equate to violence?
Webster’s definitions of Violence includes, a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc, and to assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
I’m not a violent man. I’ve never owned a gun and although, years ago, I took several years of martial arts, I haven’t been in a fight since my school days.
From Ancient Rome to the Soviet Union, history is littered with personal quests for money and power and more than one great nation has been brought to an end, because of greed and a hunger for personal power.
We’re all used to the standard everyday definitions of violence. The mugging in the park, the neighborhood gangs, with shootings and fights, the husband or wife beating or killing the spouse, even the belt taken to your kid. But is there another kind of violence, just as bad and even more dangerous to our society?
