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Virtuous Violence Part 3

Delve deep into theories explaining violence in various forms such as torture, murder, ethnic violence, NSSI, and more. Explore moral motivations, societal implications, and factors influencing violent behaviors. Understand the complexities of violent acts and their societal impacts.

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Virtuous Violence Part 3

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  1. Virtuous Violence Part 3 Fiske & Rai, 2015

  2. Torture • How does the theory explain torture? • On page 195, "Farid's previous history of terrorist acts was a slightly better predictor of support for torture than the likelihood of his providing useful information." Do you think this is parallel to how prisoners are viewed, and why it is hard for them to be integrated back into society after being released from prison? 

  3. Murder • How does the theory explain murder? • School shootings? • Shootings by those suffering from mental illnesses?

  4. Ethnic violence • What moral motivations do they suggest occur for ethnic violence? • Is it still morally motivated violence if the actor doesn’t perceive the others as human or has no “human” relationship with them?

  5. NSSI and suicide • When is suicide “moral”? How often does that occur?

  6. Violent bereavement • Examples?

  7. Robbery • Can robbery be “moral”? How? • “Except under the most desperate circumstances– and sometimes even then—the principal meaning and function of goods and money are to constitute social relationships” (p. 243)

  8. Confirmation systems theory (Fiske, 1991) • What is ConSyst?

  9. Why use violence to regulate relationships? • What led to decrease in spanking? Why is it seeing a resurgence now (if it is)? • Why has violence decreased, according to the authors? (Redux) • Why are we so attracted to violence? • Factors, p. 260

  10. When is violence less likely? • pp. 272-273 • Latané’s (1981) social impact theory—strength, immediacy, and number

  11. What are some implications of this theory…. • For prevention of violence? • For civil disobedience? • For the Cure Violence program? • For the law? • For perceptions of guilt, shame, trauma? • For research and theory more broadly?

  12. A good theory is/has… • From Kuhn, 1974: • Accurate • Consistent • Broad • Parsimonious • Fruitful • Other criteria (Cramer, 2013): • Falsifiable • Heuristic value • Applied value • Precise

  13. Empirically testing the theory

  14. Questions to consider with a violent act (p. 304) • Which RM is involved? • What is relational purpose of the violence? • What are the metarelationships involved and do they inhibit or promote violence? • What led the person to do violence rather than regulate nonviolently? • Was the violence morally motivated?

  15. Next steps in projects • Be working on individual project • When preregistration is approved, make folder public • Collect data • Suggestions for SONA • For next week—first half of Clash!

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