HUMANS ARE
INHERENTLY VIOLENT?
Babies are born,
innocent; “like a white paper” people say. Then it depends on people around
those babies: whether they will teach the babies about love to others
regardless different races, skin color, etc; or they will generate hatred to
others only due to the fact that others are different from them.
However many
people are of opinion that in fact when humans were born, violent ‘talent’ was
innate in them. Therefore, even though those babies are raised by loving and
compassionate people, and they are taught about love, it is still possible that
they will be cruel.
The story of THE
LOTTERY described the violent nature of people very well. The villagers did not
think of their peers compassionately; “We only do our rituals that our
ancestors have practiced,” Old Man Warner – who has participated in such ritual
for 77 times – said. Those people seemed like they have lost their kindness. After
someone “won” the lottery, without thinking more, the villagers directly threw
stones to the winner.
CAN WE EXPECT
PEOPLE TO BECOME NONVIOLENT?
When it is
related to “rituals” a group of people have done for long, (where in practicing
the ritual those people do something cruel to others), critical thinking is
needed. People are supposed to use their common sense to question the practice
of the violent ritual. To be able to think critically, one needs guts to
deconstruct the status quo.
In THE LOTTERY,
Tesse Hutchinson was one woman who had guts to question the ritual. Unfortunately,
she was the one who “won” the lottery.
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