Violence is selfishness in action...
It is an attitude which says, "You hurt me, so now I am going to hurt you."
Other times it is random and the result of pent-up anger and aggression. Often violence becomes a lame excuse to scapegoat someone, to blame another person for your own problems and failures.
Being violent and hurting another person during the act of a crime are not signs of manhood and maturity. Rather, they are acts of childishness and stupidity.
I've said this before, but I wish that young persons could see all the men who committed a violent crime and came to prison when they were adolescents. These guys were sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen years old when they got busted.
Let me tell you - and I have heard the same stories again and again - they got no sympathy from the courts. Instead, they got slammed with long sentences. They've thrown away their lives when each of them made the decision to do violence.
And perhaps one of the most horrible and unfortunate things about doing violence and committing crimes is, as far as you're concerned, after you got caught you realized that you didn't have to do what you did. You had a choice all along.
Now, however, you must live with the knowledge that you made the wrong choice. And you will spend many years being tormented by the reality of this fact. It is an awful feeling. I know this from experience.
D.B.
Other times it is random and the result of pent-up anger and aggression. Often violence becomes a lame excuse to scapegoat someone, to blame another person for your own problems and failures.
Being violent and hurting another person during the act of a crime are not signs of manhood and maturity. Rather, they are acts of childishness and stupidity.
I've said this before, but I wish that young persons could see all the men who committed a violent crime and came to prison when they were adolescents. These guys were sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen years old when they got busted.
Let me tell you - and I have heard the same stories again and again - they got no sympathy from the courts. Instead, they got slammed with long sentences. They've thrown away their lives when each of them made the decision to do violence.
And perhaps one of the most horrible and unfortunate things about doing violence and committing crimes is, as far as you're concerned, after you got caught you realized that you didn't have to do what you did. You had a choice all along.
Now, however, you must live with the knowledge that you made the wrong choice. And you will spend many years being tormented by the reality of this fact. It is an awful feeling. I know this from experience.
D.B.
