Blog #2 Lynching

Lynching as we know it, is an unethical act. The idea of it disgusts us and makes us feel so upset. But there was a time in history that people didn’t feel the way we do. But this didn’t just exist 100 years but how about 2500 years in ancient Rome when they had arenas with gladiators killing each other and battling vicious animals and then the audience cheering them on. This idea of entertainment is also embedded in us that we get amuse by violence. To be a realist, when there’s a movie with a terrific fight scene we get amused, biologically our eyes dilate, our heart rate increases, blood flow increases, neurological activity increases. We can barely stay still. The longer the scene the more amused we are. Can you argue that violence is a part of human nature? Well we aren’t the only mammals who share this nature. But like I said in an earlier post, we like to have and group identity among us, in society people like to stick together. Rich among rich, poor among poor, whites among whites and blacks among blacks. There’s this group psychology behind humans, we need to find what identifies ourselves and what differences we have society. Then those people should stick together and those people should stick together. But here your not only talking about that, but there’s this deadly idea of retaliation of the blacks and harms that punishment was the only cure. That’s another problem we don’t go behind the idea why people do the things they do. We don’t analyze the cause, we just focus on the punishment. But in order to induce punishment you just need words, no action, no crime just words. This was how they were able to lynch blacks and not feel an ounce of guilt and wrongdoing. when you feed words backed by no proof but just pure hate and domination this is when you go beyond your natural morals and are molded into this.