why does politics turn to violence?

One of the Ten Commandments is “thou shall not kill.” I wonder how people thought how serious this commandment is to be able to justify doing it. It is a commandment from God and yet people who claim to believe in God is able to justify doing it by using an argument that came from human cognition. I wonder how they were able to sleep at night where they disobeyed a God because a human told them to. Well maybe humans are innately evil or at least more susceptible to perform aggressive tasks just like what Milgram’s experiment showed. If so, then maybe what one would commonly hear from people that people in power are alligators, capable only of caring for themselves and shedding a tear here and now to greater DEMONstrate how selfish they really are. Well, maybe they are just unique that way. All are motives are selfish anyway. Or is it?

Come to think of it, politicians are actually smarter than what most people think. They actually were able to do things they want to do, without even doing it. They have people do it for them. People they fool and persuade into doing things that only a person with a twisted mind would do on their own. If these politicians want oil, they just tell their armies to attach the middle-east. If they want land for their people, they’ll just invade a neighbouring country. Or if they feel paranoid that they might be invaded next, they start a world war. Politicians make people do these stuff by using any means that they can use. They’ll use knowledge the wrong way to get their way. They know that people can be manipulated easily if this came from an authority (from an article by Bourke in Edkins’ book), so they use their authority. They would make people think that if they don’t kill their “enemy,” their enemy will kill them (from an article by Bourke in Edkins’ book). And how do they cover up? They would make it seem that they are against killing and “fight” against those people who find pleasure in killing whenever these politicians can.

In an article by Bourke, she mentioned about how technology dehumanizes violence, since through technology, violence can be done by people without having being there. People can remotely do violence with a push of a button.

There is this idea that I remember from one of my chemistry classes. That behaviour of chemicals would follow the path of least resistance. Where it is easiest, is the best way to go. Violence now is so easy and subtle that it is scarier than ever. There might come a time where violence would be the easiest way out and people will choose this path. maybe that is why politics turn to violence.