Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Ex-thug talking
One of the articles I just read was talking about the football violence in the 1980's, when it was at its worst. The authors interviewed a man who had been involved in the violent lifestyle, but had become a Christian, thus changing his ways. He said that one of the main reasons he got involved in the firms was because of his need to belong to something. That, coupled with a poor upbringing, almost pushed him into gang violence. So, it seems as though many of the thugs are just like normal thugs. But what about the ones that have seemingly great lives and jobs and families? I will have to do more research.
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Sounds like you have a question that is often very puzzling. But those are the best kind.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably really silly, but when I read this I thought of Dexter. I do not know if you watch the show, but it is about a man who works for Miami's homicide unit and he kills people in his spare time. What I think is similar is that Dexter, like your blue collar soccer thugs who are violent at games but seemingly average elsewhere, is driven by a need to find a balance between being a good family man and moonlighting as a killer. The show is never direct in saying this, but he finds this balance, I think, through a mix of sociopathy, personality disorder, and ethics. He either compartmentalizes his life into a drama that resembles a personality disorder or he develops a set of ethics, what he calls his "code," that governs why and how he kills people. I wonder if something similar occurs in the lives of your thugs? Even so, how could one go about proving that? Best of luck!
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