Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
What if its more like a tornado. Once in motion it has its own momentum, goals and "desires"; quite independent of the wishes/aims of its author.
I think violence is more of a method (or a 'tool') to meet a particular goal. The way you've described it here makes it seem like violence is an emotion in itself (or something like that), which doesn't make much sense to me. Violence tends to be a method to satisfy some desire (such as anger etc), and it's this desire that can garner its own momentum.
When the method changes (say, instead of punching someone in the face, you send them an angry email (lol!)) the desire can still get out of hand (so you send dozens of angry emails escalating to vitriolic diatribe after a while).

imo, i think. i dunno, i'm kinda sleepy tbh and I'm not sure if this is very coherent.