Violence Is The Province Of Evil People

Violence Is The Province Of Evil People

Natural violence is a form of hurtful action or reaction, which can

assume an infinite number of forms, and it is not unusual for people

to fashion arguments of one kind or another to justify its existence.

Not many typical arguments can be fashioned so as to justify any

existence of violence as being the province of and evil people or

nation.

An argument however is contained in the Biblical records of Genesis

18:19, where two cities Sodom and Gomorra were the provinces

(interpreted as location) of evil people, and as a result all persons

were destroyed by unusually devastating violent acts of fire and

brimstone, which rained on them and also destroyed their entire

cities. The substantial argument from this Biblical, historical

perspective is that the people were "in grievous sin" as Genesis 18:20

puts it, and such it was the evil in them that perpetrated the

violence in the location of Sodom and Gomorra. Another logic, seem to

fashion and entirely different viewpoint and argument that the

devastation, emanated from natural causes since the both cities where

evidently located in a shallow rift valley on the southern side of the

dead sea where deposit of sulpur and asphalt (bitumen pits ) were to

be found .It has been speculated that the violence inflicted on the

people by the fire and brimstone had to do with "the ignition of

natural gases by lightning, in association with an earthquake

disturbance in this rift valley, which possibly started the

conflagration with its rain of sulphurous fire and the pall of asphalt

smoke". A counter philosophical position seems to suggest that Sodom

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...nts itself in the form of crafty and sometimes

diabolic suggestions, which ultimately leads to man's withholding of a

proper response to the Creator's Majesty and Grace. Instead, man pays

homage to the adversary, the Devil, and/or to his own ambitions and

achievements.

In contrast, a relatively different argument in the concept of evil

lies in Theodicy, which, as a matter of speaking, has to do with "the

vindication of the justice of God in establishing a world in which

evil exists". This excuses, and glorifies malevolence as an

explanation of the evil acts to which men in society are but simple

prey. One may reasonably conclude therefore, that man's miseries are

ineluctably the product of his nature. The root of all evil is

therefore man, and so he himself must be seen as the province of any

specific evil.