HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mass Hysteria, Maximilien Robespierre, Democratic Republic
18 Jul 2017
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Advantage: vengeance shouldn"t be looked down upon as an uncultured response. The desire for vengeance is a sense of valuing a proportionality of equality. If you"re mistreated, you have an obligation to yourself and to all of humanity to assert your self respect in all of that put-down. I"m not going to be put down like that, because i have self-respect. Disadvantage: ultranationalist nations; say we have to defend germany against the. There is quite a broad spectrum of the cultural basis of trauma and hurt; hurt is a social phenomenon that can be shared and transmitted through sympathies, and this can have good and bad e ects. It can create mass hysteria, but can also create a community of sympathy and support to help people gain strength from one another as they endure di culties. This is part of the extra-legal realm; the social one.
