Whether violence is innate or constructed determines whether it can be eliminated

Evidence

What in fact has happened in the course of the civilizing process, is the redeployment of violence, and the re-distribution of access to violence. Like so many other things which we have been trained to abhor and detest, violence has been taken out of sight, rather than forced out of existence. It has become invisible, that is, from the vantage point of narrowly circumscribed and privatized personal experience. It has been enclosed instead in segregated and isolated territories, on the whole inaccessible to ordinary members of society; or evicted to the ‘twilight areas’, off-limits for a large majority (and the majority which counts) of society’s members; or exported to distant places which on the whole are irrelevant for the life-business of civilized humans (one can always cancel holiday bookings). — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Every political violence theory must assume contingency or inherency as basic; The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285

Broader Connections

• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it #complicates (0.81) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285