Why Violence Cannot Be Eradicated

The primary purpose of human rights is to protect the inalienable and fundamental rights to which we are entitled by nature, for we are human beings. They guarantee respect for life, freedom and happiness. However, during war or other forms of violence, these rights become erratic. When violence occurs, it is difficult to stay safe and unharmed.

Hegel’s “history theory” argues that the principles of thesis and antithesis (events in history) created what we know today as the basis of synthesis. The synthesis balanced the opposing parties. However, it seems that Hegel, both in his theory of history and in his “master-slave dialectic,” was too optimistic.

It is not crazy to say that history has progressed on the wrong side. That is, viewed through the prism by which we see past events and the present, and the prediction of the future based on experience.

Even in the first book of Moses, we can see how God used violence to drive people out of worldly paradise. All just because people dared to taste forbidden fruit. The view is that only God can have knowledge. Eve sinned by eating an apple from the forbidden tree. Next, pain and violence are described as brothers Cain and Abel reveal to us, through their actions, the mystery of all tragedies. I want to own and control. (Cain means “possession” and Abel reflects “innocence.”)

The spirit of domination and death

We could say that the desire to own is just a desire to control. When someone doesn’t own what they want, they look for it somewhere else. Here we can see that man only wants to own. In addition to this, a person can only get it by taking it, and not letting go.

It is precisely this desire to own that causes people to act violently, even to kill. That is why Freud conceptually called it a “death celebration”. Ownership is nothing more than a desire to control others in order to get what they want. If the owner of an object refuses to give the object to a thirsty ruler, the owner of the object will die in a violent fight or act.

Or, as Nietzsche has said, “where there is life, there is a desire to rule. And the strongest beings risk their lives to gain more power. This shows that the  desire to control is stronger than the desire to survive. ” To keep what you have, you need to expand.

Who will survive in a violent world as a winner

According to Adolf Hitler, Germany depicted culture and power. There was a desire to rule in his country. No other country had what Germany had. From this idea arose his need to expand and kill in order for his kingdom to grow.

As we said before, when a person really wants something, he has to control who it is in order to get what he wants himself. In this case, as Hegel has stated, whichever is less afraid of death wins.

The desire to control is spiritual, and therefore motivating. But the fear of death is carnal, and it turns people into mammals. Those who continue to fight maintain their own state as thinking people.

The world belongs to rulers. They have the wars and the media they need to rule the world. They can rule the world also because people are scared. And those who are scared are not trying to rebel against it.

Violence and the pursuit of power

According to Nietzsche, people have a desire for power, which he says is positive and vital. The desire to control takes a person into the world of life, not the world of work. The desire for power exists, because it is a matter of continuous development. We love ourselves, and we don’t just want to be content with what we have now, we always want more.

In this situation, we see the difference between what we already have and what we want. We see the difference between a master and a slave; the slave succumbs, for he fears death, and in this way everything can be taken away from him. Only those who fear less, who want more, who are not bothered by hurting others, and who want to fight to get what they want, keep their dignity.

According to this theory of violence, violence exists because it has always existed, and it will always exist. It is innate to humans and fortunately, or unfortunately, part of human nature.