Resumen de Detecting a common interpretive framework for impersonal violence: the homology in participants rhetoric on sport hunting, hate crimes, and stanger rape
Based on the discourse of sport hunters, "hate criminals", ande stranger rapists, this essay argues that a common interpretive framework rhetorically informs all three actities. The four features of the homology identified are: (a)the rhetor symbolically constructs and physically initiates an adversarial relationship with non-consenting victims/prey class members, (b) victims/prey class members are selected opportunistically and constructed impersonalize as relatively interchangeable class representatives, (c)rhetors distance and impersonalize victims/prey, without objectifying them or diminishing their presumed potency or the status accompanying conquering them, and (d) rhetors express a desire to physically assert-and take pleasure in exhibiting- dominance and superior hierarchical status. An important finding is that the violent actors studied symbolically construe their victims/prey as "others", sensate and worth dominating, not merely as valueless objects, and experience themselves in relationship with these "Others" in some shared hierarchy that the violent actors preceive as significant. The essay argues that this interpretive framework is variation on, rather than a deviation from, mainstream American Society's motivational rhetoric. It concludes by examining one possible alternative framework for symbolically encompassing those same motives without justifying impersonal violence and in a way that promotes more pro-social impersonal relationships
