VIOLENCE (intermediate / advanced adults)

• What is violence?
• How many kinds of violence are there?
• Does one need a gun to act violently?
• What are the effects of violence?
• Where are the roots of violence?: are people born violent, or do we learn violence?
• Have you ever been involved in a violent act? 
• What do you consider the worst act of violence?
• Has the world become more or less violent throughout history?

Watch these videos and give your impressions:

Here is the second one, recorded at a school in Iowa (U.S.A.) in 1968.
 An interesting experiment on power:

There is sarcasm in this one (do you consider sarcasm violence?), but it carries an interesting thought:
why does the victim so often feel guilty?

Do you think we live in a violent society?

Shall we create a list of acts of violence? Let me think...

1. Lying
2. Intimidation
3. Neglect
4. Rudeness
5. ...
6. ...
7. ...

Which would you add?