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    Brutality: Purity and Revenge
    Brutality: Purity and Revenge
    Brutality: Purity and Revenge
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    Brutality: Purity and Revenge

    By Isuru Abeysinghe

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    Examines the fundamental causes of brutality, atrocities and extremism in the world in both a historical and contemporary context. Purports the theory that all causes of extremism stem from two main contributing factors - the desire for purity or the desire for revenge. Various conflicts are categorized into the general categories of purity-based extremism: racial, religious and political as well as an examination of conflict scenarios that revolve around revenge and cyclic retribution.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsuru Abeysinghe
    Release dateMar 29, 2013
    ISBN9781301943623
    Brutality: Purity and Revenge
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    Isuru Abeysinghe

    My life has generally been devoted to the pursuit of technical ambitions, being a graduate of Software Engineering and working for a financial services company as a software developer. However, I have many interests in humanities - history and politics mainly - providing fuel for my creative outlet of writing. I try and integrate equal parts of bleak and almost brutal analysis together with sardonic comedy to produce works that I hope will offer new perspectives and reflect actual social issues in the real world.

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      Brutality - Isuru Abeysinghe

      BRUTALITY: PURITY AND REVENGE

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      Isuru Abeysinghe

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      Brutality: Purity and Revenge

      Copyright © 2013 Isuru Abeysinghe

      This book is about a simple premise – that the nature of human brutality throughout history is rooted in one of two primary causes; which are issues surrounding purity or issues surrounding revenge. From this perspective, I will attempt to depict a few famous historical and contemporary illustrations of human brutality, both from a social level and an individual level. The work is provided as a philosophical treatise which may have concrete and relevant applications to real world issues both in terms of personal relations and the relations between groups in

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