Aggression Among youths-Causes and effects _ Steem4nigeria Contest || Entry by @xkool24 || 10% beneficiary reward to Steem4nigeria || 7th sept, 2022

Welcome guys to my blog. It's a fresh week with the new contests in the community. I'd gladly participating in the ongoing contest on Aggression- What it is, Causes and Effects, and I would be making my entry using the contest hints.

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Introduction to Aggression

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The current economic woes have continued unabated with inflationary effects ravaging most of the countries in the world. No doubt that this may be connected with the Pandemic and also the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. This has triggered economic hardship with inflation getting to the roofs.

However, aggression and other inevitable vices are on the rise with different societal implications therein. People now have to be laborious to make the same ends meet as seen before relative to their survival. In other words, this has affected the mental, emotional and physical behavior of many.

Most importantly, before we see aggression in play, there must have been effects or abnormality from wrongdoings in the environment, poor economic conditions, societal wrongs, etc which are all accumulated grievances to the aggressor. These accumulated effects always bring about that feeling of anger to either attack or confront one another in a violent way. One may define aggression as the feeling of wanting to attack or confront another at the slightest provocation. This is due to the accumulated grievances from the hardships, sufferings, high cost of living, economic meltdown, or poor governance in a given society.

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The Prevalence of Aggression in my Locality

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The economic impacts witnessed in recent times are not localized and hence the hostility observed for just this course to survival has gone up. The inflationary effects on living condition is no longer a child's play as virtually the common man out there have to double-up (work extra miles) before making a living.

Therefore, this has put most of the youths in a dangerous lane as many are now found on this path of aggression at any slightest provocation. I will give some typical examples of aggression in my locality.
I know most of us know about these truck pushers or wheelbarrow handlers. These are mostly youths who earn a living from this heinous daily task. When you are driving and about to obstruct their movement legitimately, they rain abuses on you by default. When you try to engage them, they seem very unsatisfied with life and aggressive in their dealings with you. This simply shows the toll of life over time on their mental and psychological life.

What about the Keke and town-service Bus drivers, these are another set of people who are impatient, abusive, reckless, and aggressive in behavior. Most of them seem frustrated due to the economic situations and hence tend to be hostile in their interaction most times. A clear scenario can be observed from the bus conductors. They are liable to tell you the hell of abusive words in a second. All these misbehaviors are evident effects of the uneven treatment from government mismanagement of the economy, bad leadership, negligence, job less or no job, etc.

Due to acts of aggression, sensitive and costly mistakes are made. Lives are lost due to this responsive way of attack or confrontation amongst one another. Violence is not respecter of the tribe, age, or ethnicity. When it happens, we can only assume it never happened at all. There are scenarios where the false alarm is given and an individual is mobbed to death due to this responsiveness to attack.

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Some of the Causes of Aggression in the Society

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There are no causes without a source. Every cause especially in this context of Aggression has a start-up point before accumulation and reaction. These are some of the causes of aggression in our society today;

✓ Joblessness / Unemployment
✓ Non Satisfaction
✓ Bad Governance and Leadership
✓ Bad Economic Conditions & Inflations
✓ Untold Envy

Unemployment and Joblessness have been prime cause of aggression. There's this saying that an idle mind is the devil's workshop. This was not wrongly quoted as most outburst is a result of accumulated grievances from the woes of unemployment and idleness. The most culprit of this factor is the degree holder who graduates from school without any hope of employable jobs.

Non Satisfaction may primarily come from a lack of contentment or poor remuneration from jobs. Due to the fear of idling away on Joblessness, some engage in jobs whose earnings are little. Hence this only places them a little above those without any Job. The same scenarios (aggression) are seen to play out over time.

Bad Governance and Leadership as seen today have perpetually left the country in a sorry state. There is complete decay in infrastructure with no hope of any in view. Given the little cycle of beneficiaries, many are disenfranchised and hence the build-up of aggression amongst many.

Bad Economic Conditions & Inflations are likely external forces that stir the economy into its bad shape. Concerns about the pandemic and wars have been a major cause of the economic meltdown in our various domains. This brings about untold hardship and poverty which are instruments of aggression.

Untold Envy is behavioral pattern inherent in some individuals due to other people's economic status or positions within society. This attack or violent behavior against others may be an act of jealousy or transferred aggression.

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The Effects of Aggression on the Society

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As earlier mentioned, the effects of aggression can be drawn from the actions and reactions of its Causes. We cannot mention the effects of aggression without having to note its causes.

The effects may be mild, and violent, and sometimes lead to loss of life. In whichever case, the death from an aggressor may likely bring about single parenting, and more untold hardship to the bereaved family. Therefore, an eye for an eye does not make anyone see more but rather makes everyone blind.

There are cases of the high rate of lawlessness or anarchy in the society as everyone is on the brink of attack and confrontation. Where Governance and Leadership have failed, the state is likened to being lawless with the potency of sliding into anarchy.

Therefore, the general effect of aggression that we may encounter in any society include;

✓ Maiming or Deaths due to high risk of attacks and confrontation
✓ Hardships and Suffering
✓ Economic Disruptions
✓ Possibility of Riots and Protests
✓ Breakdown of Law and Order

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Possible Solutions to Aggression

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One of the major ingredients to stem incidences of aggression in a society is better living conditions for its citizens. This can be done in various ways by driving the main objectives and dividends of democracy to the citizens and as well attending to their plights in a more responsive manner.

The state of affairs should be able to fix concerns bothering employment. Programs and social interventions should be put in place to enable removing a greater number of unemployed citizens from aggression as well as providing for them during job losses.

Leadership and Governance are other components that needed to be citizens friendly. Governance should be focused on in such a way that the yearnings of the citizens are relatively met. Programs, projects, interventions, etc should be launched to help ameliorate most of the causes of aggression.

In conclusion, the issue of aggression cannot be overlooked as the consequential effects of bad leadership and economic conditions within the society. A better approach geared towards stabilizing the economy should be encouraged via providing a better source of livelihood to its citizens as well as stemming the high cost of living.

Thank you the organizers of this contest for this great opportunity for all of us to share our views.

Written by @xkool24

I invite @teguhatanga @kinkyamiee and @hisgeneral to participate