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Our modernity has been exceedingly violent.
And it's not surprising that religion, too, has been affected by this violent ethos.
Each kit represented a victim, mostly a female, that had suffered a violent sexual assault.
All right after a violent sexual assault.
We are the most compassionate, most violent, most creative and most destructive animal that has ever been on this planet, and we are all of those things all jumbled up together.
Is this colliding and book-dropping too violent?
Stars die by this same intersection, this time flung outward in a violent collision of smaller atoms, intersecting and efficiently fusing into altogether new and heavier things.
On July 4, 2012, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they'd spotted a new fundamental particle being created at the violent collisions at the LHC: the Higgs boson.
What particle physicists are all desperately hoping for are signs of new particles, micro black holes, or maybe something totally unexpected emerging from the violent collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
But what was powerful about this was that anonymous individuals, not federal policia, not military, not politicians, could strike fear deep into the heart of one of the most powerful, violent organizations in the world.
Now, some will still argue Islam is a violent religion.
It's about keeping all guns away from certain people, and it's the people that, it turns out, we all agree shouldn't have guns: convicted violent criminals, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally ill.
I then took the fragments of these and created molds, and cast them first in wax, and finally in bronze like the image you see here, which bears the marks of its violent creation like battle wounds or scars.
I saw one study that compared women in Nigeria, one of the most chaotic and violent and corrupt and poorest countries in Africa, to women in North America.
The violent crime rate in New York went down after 9/11.
Making that illegal means that many of us work alone, which obviously makes us vulnerable to violent offenders.
He eventually left without getting physically violent, but the knowledge that we were breaking the law empowered that man to threaten us.
I might have no other choice but to accept a booking from a man who is untraceable if he later turns out to be violent.
And people are turning violent in a country that is otherwise happy in pura vida.
In a study of 323 major political conflicts from 1900 to 2006, Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns were almost 100 percent more likely to lead to success than violent campaigns.
Psychopathy is a developmental disorder with strongly genetic origins, and it results in a personality that's cold and uncaring and a tendency to engage in antisocial and sometimes very violent behavior.
I thought violent jihad was noble, chivalrous and the best way to help.
But now I believe that there are no circumstances on earth where violent jihad is permissible, because it will lead to greater harm.
It has been perverted to mean violent struggle wherever Muslims are undergoing difficulties, and turned into terrorism by fascistic Islamists like al-Qaeda, Islamic State and others.
I was one of the pioneers of violent jihad in the UK.
It exploded, and he died a violent death, blown to bits by the very same device that had proved harmless to me.
So I got involved in violent jihad in the mid '80s, starting with Afghanistan.
That people who engage in violent jihadism, that people who are drawn to these types of extremisms, are not that different to everyone else.
This is the violent video games question, but it's on a completely new level because of this visceral physicality that we respond more intensely to than to images on a screen.
When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles?
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