Imagine how dull Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry would have been had it relied on politeness and political correctness rather than criminal insanity and anti-social behavior? It might well have become ideologically sound and socially acceptable but it would have been an entirely different film, and a terminally boring one. For the purpose of achieving artistic character, especially in film, there is a need to portray socially unacceptable behavior because it displays the realities of life, present philosophical viewpoint of human nature, and helps convey the story. ... Monty who should have...

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One will always believe that one's behavior is unacceptable and thus label them as being deviant. Defining the term deviance branches off into different directions, one may coin a person's behavior morally, socially, medically or whatever them seem to consider as a deviant action. ... I also concluded that this is a social activity. ... According to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior,General strain theory departs from traditional strain theories by emphasizing the role of the individual 's affective responses to negative life experiences in fostering deviant behavior.?...

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This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... These problems were judged unacceptable by Americans of that day. ... The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... Other evidence in the United States can be f...

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This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... These problems were judged unacceptable by Americans of that day. ... The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... Other evidence in the United States can be f...

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Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive tendencies, marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." ... Many drug users say that the first...

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Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive tendencies, marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." ... Many drug users say that the f...

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