What is Violated in Violence?
Security adores the language of ‘violation’, mostly discovered in the discourse of James Reason. Simply have a learn of this article for a couple of minutes and you will notice an issue. First of those 12 ‘principles’ states ‘human error is not a moral issue’, actually? Then the subsequent assertion confirms it is an ethical subject when it states ‘errors are not intrinsically bad’. This is the sort of nonsense put ahead when one doesn’t have an ethic of risk. Simply learn the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, there is no dialogue of personhood, it’s all about obligation to programs not about how the character of personhood is violated by the strategies of safety. Sadly, Cause has a lot to reply for in the best way he misdirected the safety trade from understanding an ethic of risk.
How attention-grabbing this mannequin of Cause that favours linear swiss-cheese considering and violation thought-about as deviance from working procedures (Cause, J., (1997) Managing the Dangers of Organisational Accidents Pp. 72-73). How remarkably primitive to not contemplate for a second that violation is NOT in regards to the violation of programs however reasonably the violation of Personhood! Any dialogue of violence or justice is a ethical and moral dialogue. Any dialogue of malevolence (p.72, p.211) is an moral and ethical dialogue. How handy this deontological ethic that understands violence as ‘incorrect actions’. What an important basis to excuse the brutalism of Behaviour-Based mostly Security.
If you’re searching for some understanding of the character of violence there is nothing in the AIHS BoK that can assist you. Equally, workplace violence is not nearly being abused, threatened or assaulted.
On the basis of an understanding of violence sit two crucial components which might be the elephant in the room for Security – Energy and Personhood. (Neither get a point out in the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, nor a point out in any safety insurance policies on Violence). A violation is a violation of how one defines an individual. When individuals are outlined as objects, behaviours, actions or ‘factors’ in a system, violation is straightforward. It is way more complete (and difficult) to outline an ethic of personhood and Energy and work out who (not what) has been violated.
Girard (Violence and the Sacred) discusses the character of violence in a complete approach contemplating personhood, safety, risk, the sacred, scapegoating, sacrifice and mimetics. Nonetheless, I don’t agree with Girard when he states: ‘Only violence can put an end to violence, and that is why violence is self-propagating’ (p.27)
Girard understands scapegoating as ritual violence. He is proper nevertheless to say that: ‘violence and the sacred are ultimately the same process’ (p.273). This is as a result of the violation of one other particular person is what defines violence. What is left for Girard nevertheless is merely a proclamation that there is good and dangerous violence (p.119). In different phrases, the moral final result defines violence. For Girard this want for the sacred outcomes in the ritual of scapegoating, an appeasement (atonement) to revive the sacred. The scapegoat symbolically restores the purity of personhood. In Girard’s economic system of violence it is a reciprocal ritual violence (scapegoating) that restores order (stability) to individuals in society.
There are different ethics of Personhood that stand in distinction to the deontological ethic of safety and Girard’s ethic of violence. Sadly, to pursue Girard’s sense of violence takes one down the pathway to Nietzsche and the Ubermensch (superhuman). Neither safety nor Girard supply any hope for an ethic of risk that offers successfully with Personhood and Energy.
So as soon as once more, we come to the necessity to outline moral foundations. With out an ethic than features a definition of Personhood and Energy it is probably that Security will proceed to know violence as acts (behaviours) in opposition to programs.
If you wish to suppose extra deeply about the issue of violence, I talk about Personhood in The Social Psychology of Danger Handbook (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/the-social-psychology-of-risk-handbook/ ) Chapter 2.
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