Alienation without meaning inevitably drives people toward violence.
Evidence
Oppression, he notices, doesn’t make people saintly, it makes them potential killers; all victims are dangerous. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Lambrinos was a retired farmer on the Greek island of Zákinthos. He had complained for years about his neighbor Imberia Boziki, a woman who blasted music on her radio the entire evening when all Lambrinos wanted to do was listen to the news. On May 31, 1996, Lambrinos snapped. He got up from his armchair, grabbed his hunting rifle, rang Imberia’s bell and, when she answered, shot her three times, dead. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 48 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737; Chronic noise conflict has driven ordinary people to lethal violence — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 48; Threat-hardened leaders alienated followers, so predicted radicalization never happened — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 593 (+1 more)
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Broader Connections
- Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims
#corroborates(0.80) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737 - Chronic noise conflict has driven ordinary people to lethal violence
#exemplifies(0.70) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 48