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IS VIOLENCE NATURAL?
Author(s) -
Hardin Garrett
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1983.tb00524.x
Subject(s) - sovereignty , obedience , balance (ability) , power (physics) , doctrine , economic justice , hierarchy , political science , law , natural (archaeology) , social psychology , criminology , law and economics , sociology , psychology , politics , geography , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , archaeology
. The balance of obedience/aggressiveness is necessarily skewed to the left in infancy; maturation shifts it to the right. Hierarchies greatly reduce overt violence. Positional shifts in a hierarchy take place through violence or the threat of violence. Self‐serving individuals tend to upset hierarchical balance. Peace is served by the acceptance of a sovereign power (like the nation), which gives justice precedence over fairness. “Justice as fairness” is a pernicious doctrine. Religion has in the past favored secular sovereignty for the sake of peace; hence the protection of religions by sovereign powers.