Ravings... on Domestic Violence

It's four in the friggin morning and I realize I haven't written anything despite my burst of garrulous typing a week ago. (Curse you, Half Life (and NWN, TFTD, Death Gate, etc.)!) I type this entry up because I feel like without typing up thoughts I'll dry up like a shoddy well in Death Valley or some other poor metaphor.

Criminal profiling can provide some amazing things: before John Wayne Casey(mispelling?) and several other serial killers, there was not much for a criminal investigator to work on when they were finding their victim. One thing that strikes me most interesting when one profiles is the background these people come from: usually abusive family backgrounds. I can understand now why domestic violence is a true crime to humanity: not only is it the silent crime that hides the manslaughter behind families, that even may encourage their descendants to continue the tradition of this horrid cycle, but it just may be responsible for the creation of so many homicides in the world.

Now don't get me wrong, I always believe in nature AND nurture when it comes to these sort of things (how else can you explain certain things like child geniuses and people that become succesful even though their families lacked the history of succesful people?). Still, the environment created from a disfunctional family riddled with abuse within their circle of love makes me sick. Because it teaches children that it is all right to abuse the family, they grow up with it and it has the possibility to corrupt them totally. After all, one of the things behind serial killers that makes them so ill-regarded is the fact that they live normal lives like you and I, taking on expressions that you and I wear everyday... until they find their victim and play their little "games".

And yet to this day it survives. Why? Because some people were just never meant to be the ones that could handle the burden of parenting despite any wishes they may have for their own descendants. It almost makes me wish they had a system to determine if you should be allowed to live in a complex with someone of the opposite sex (Even without just confining it to marriage, it would be a near-impossible law to pull in the first place considering how easy it could be to defy it, but still... drastic events can call for drastic measures).

Regardless of these problems, there are a few things that I can be glad of regarding abusive families, and that is that a few people I know have went through them yet were able to become some of the kindest people I know: and that is just what I find so amazing. It's things like that that show me that man can sometimes break the destinies that are forced to them... and hopefully escape the grasp of domestic violence forever.

Ravings... on Domestic Violence

It's four in the friggin morning and I realize I haven't written anything despite my burst of garrulous typing a week ago. (Curse you, Half Life (and NWN, TFTD, Death Gate, etc.)!) I type this entry up because I feel like without typing up thoughts I'll dry up like a shoddy well in Death Valley or some other poor metaphor.

Criminal profiling can provide some amazing things: before John Wayne Casey(mispelling?) and several other serial killers, there was not much for a criminal investigator to work on when they were finding their victim. One thing that strikes me most interesting when one profiles is the background these people come from: usually abusive family backgrounds. I can understand now why domestic violence is a true crime to humanity: not only is it the silent crime that hides the manslaughter behind families, that even may encourage their descendants to continue the tradition of this horrid cycle, but it just may be responsible for the creation of so many homicides in the world.

Now don't get me wrong, I always believe in nature AND nurture when it comes to these sort of things (how else can you explain certain things like child geniuses and people that become succesful even though their families lacked the history of succesful people?). Still, the environment created from a disfunctional family riddled with abuse within their circle of love makes me sick. Because it teaches children that it is all right to abuse the family, they grow up with it and it has the possibility to corrupt them totally. After all, one of the things behind serial killers that makes them so ill-regarded is the fact that they live normal lives like you and I, taking on expressions that you and I wear everyday... until they find their victim and play their little "games".

And yet to this day it survives. Why? Because some people were just never meant to be the ones that could handle the burden of parenting despite any wishes they may have for their own descendants. It almost makes me wish they had a system to determine if you should be allowed to live in a complex with someone of the opposite sex (Even without just confining it to marriage, it would be a near-impossible law to pull in the first place considering how easy it could be to defy it, but still... drastic events can call for drastic measures).

Regardless of these problems, there are a few things that I can be glad of regarding abusive families, and that is that a few people I know have went through them yet were able to become some of the kindest people I know: and that is just what I find so amazing. It's things like that that show me that man can sometimes break the destinies that are forced to them... and hopefully escape the grasp of domestic violence forever.