Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Grievous Bodily Harm


Like it or not, violence and mayhem is part and parcel of humanity. We have not progressed so far as to leave our animal natures completely behind. Approximately 90 per cent of human action is behavior, unreasoned reaction to external stimuli. Though we wish we were rational and thoughtful in all we do, the truth is we carry our ancestors' genes and the survival traits that got us to this point, have not atrophied because we started wearing clothes and writing our contemporaneous history. Wars are fought even today and Boxing and Cage Fighting have never been so popular. The British, with their civilized veneer have sought to codify rights, responsibilities and what behaviors are acceptable and which need to be sanctioned. since at least 1215 and the first drafts of the Magna Carta. The Offences against the Person of 1861,oft referred to as GBH is the list of NoNo s and if we abhor the primitive actions, we must applaud Rational Man's attempt to describe and prohibit them is specific terms
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