How does violence arise?

The Süddeutsche Zeitung asks how youths can become violent criminals: "Looked at objectively there is certainly a correlation between horror films, brutal computer games and violent criminals. But what if it's not the games that created the criminal? What if it were he who sought them out and got his kicks from them, having already discovered that violence is his thing? ... 'This is the day of the expanding man', sang the pop group Steely Dan thirty years ago in a song comprising the inner monologue of a homicidal gunman before his final encounter with the police. 'They got a name for the winners in the world / I, I want a name when I lose.' What is violence? Destroying the will of another person. And in his will to do this, the homicidal gunman behaves rationally, terribly rationally."

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