Justification Of Brutality

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The more confidant someone is the more likely they will justify their actions which is not always a bad thing, this self confidence can help them achieve greatness. When someone is justifying hurting someone else is when the justifications turn to the dark side. A person does not need to be confident to justify hurting others, but it does sometimes increase their ability to not see the victim as they truly are. “Combine perpetrators who have high self-esteem and victims who are helpless, and you have a recipe for the escalation of brutality”(Tavris, Aronson 200), the authors are saying that someone who is confident will most likely not show as much mercy to someone who shows weakness as someone who isn’t so helpless. In crime it is hard to