Physical Violence vs Verbal Violence-Which one will have more effect???

Physical Violence-You can be pushed to the ground, Run over by a car, punched in the face, broken your bones or be shot, that will kill you?

Verbal Violence-Dating back to Verbal bullying, being called names, having rumours spread about you, this can lead to depression, which in more serious cases, can lead to drugs. Drugs affect your emotions, mood and you will die, and if not you will have a horrible life.

Personally, I think Injuries heal over time, but they will scar you for life, so I'm kinda mixed opinions about this...

 

It really all comes down to who the person is and how they can cope with violence IMO.

Personally, I think that verbal violence would have more effect as it can sometimes tend to hurt the person for a very long time and can pull them into a depression. For example, I've been bullied since I was in preschool and even the teachers back then picked on me sometimes and some of the things I was called back then still haunt me today. Over ten years later.

 

Physical pain can be forgotten, once you recieve a blow it becomes a memory. Scars fade with time.

Verbal pain though, each time you remember it, it stirs it all up again. Emotions are capable of recalling every second and every moment.

Emotional scars last forever.

Though obviously it all depends on the case, I am pretty sure being shot would hurt a hell of a lot more than someone calling me a *****.

 

Of course, it also depends on who is doing the shooting/breaking/hitting/name-calling. If it was someone I hated, I would go for the verbal, because I wouldn't give a sh*t. If it was my mom, my boyfriend, or some other close relative, I would go for the physical, because its A)easier to fight back, and B) it would hurt a lot less. In either case its best to get away from the source of the pain, but depending on the person, and who is hurting the person, it's different for everyone.

 

Bruises heal, but emotional/verbal abuse takes a lot more work to recover from.

I was emotionally abused in fifth and sixth grade, and it still causes me issues to this day. I immediately close up whenever I talk to someone I don't know, or when I think someone might be unhappy with something I did. It's hard to get me to show my true emotions. And if it wasn't for certain people, I might not be here right now.

I have a friend who was physically abused, and she never really cared. She just figured that her parents needed some anger management classes or something.​

 

I think it depends on the psychological effect. Personally, I think words have more of a psychological effect than injuries do (even though injuries can) so words seem to be more effective.

 

It depends on how you use each.

 

Verbal violence, easily. People have beat the **** out of me so many times before, and when I retaliate with mental warfare they can't stand to it. They can't win a game they don't know they're playing.

Also I lost The Game.

 

If you are backhanded by your girlfriend, you might be a little hurt emotionally. And if you're being tormented in grade school by a bully, its all about fear. =/ Its the feeling that's given off when you're physically hit along with the force. You'll remember the action and the feeling given off, but you cant remember the pain anymore. In my opinion I say that verbal abuse is the worst when the person is close to you. The person could easily result to lowly tactics and bring up something from your past that would ultimately hurt you severely.

 

Physical violence heals over time, verbal violence is unlikely to hit me at all.
Easy choice.

 

you can go to the cops for physical, but verbal you just have to handle yourself. you can get plastic surgery for physical scars, but verbal scars may never heal.

 

Physically, physical violence would of course have the more dangerous affect on the life of a human being. Verbal violence is purely psychological; it would depend on the mental strength and capability of the receiver to resist it.

 

Physical Violence - Will hurt you, scar you, damage your body permanently [as in getting an incurable disease from someone beating you up]. You will remember it, it may stalk you, but you will never be able to feel that pain again, at least not as bad.

Verbal Violence - Will emotionally cripple you for life. Keeping in mind that whatever you say to a person no matter how good or bad, they will remember it for the rest of their lives [unless of course you have short-term memory loss from a physical injury, liek getting smashed in the head] Even though its just psychological bullshit.

It all depends on the type of person you are. If you have good mental-strength then you'll deal with verbal violence. If not, then your more likely to withstand a physically violent attack.

Violence is not the answer, although it is quite fun sometimes :'D

 

Physical violence - I'd say as others have said, it hurts at the time but mostly you can heal from it. You may wear scars or have some permanent disfiguration to remind you of it, which sucks and means it's going to always be recalled probably more vividly than otherwise.

Mental violence - Words hurt until you learn to stop caring so much what others think when they are being idiots. The only people in the end who should be able to affect others with words are those who matter most, which doesn't calculate in the dorks from school or work that are just associates you have to hang around. However, it takes time to figure this out and even as adults, people can remember back when they were in school and how much some people made it really difficult to want to even be there.

To me, since I've had often both at the same time, from relatives and from some bullies, I can say the coupled effect is worst. Being beaten on while being told you are a useless scum of the earth and the person wishes you were dead, so later you have scars both physical and mental.. much worse than either mental or physical violence on their own. Since the worst pains for me from the past come from having both done at the same time, it's hard for me to judge whether physical violence or mental violence is worse, but I suppose it would depend on -how- violent each was. I suppose in the end though, the mental violence tends to stick with people more as most people are social and being mistreated so as to not be part of the group, feel like crap etc, lingers and can leave people feeling very insignificant or furious. Those who are beaten to the point of having permanent injuries and scars etc, have to live with that the rest of their lives but if it was not done constantly to them, they have a better chance of recovery with more pleasant mental happenings going on around them. However.. again, most of the time people get beaten up and abused physically, there is normally some form of mental abuse tied to it. Unless it's some random beating, I fail to see how it's not going to be that way.

 

I voted for verbal violence. Yeah, physical violence has the threat of death behind it and can permanently cripple you, but verbal violence can leave behind emotional scars that can be EXTREMELY hard to heal; the body can heal a lot faster than the soul can, in some instances.

 

i agree with you Yukichin.

but it also depends on who it it recieving the abuse. like me, i can pretty much deal with verbal abuse. (most of the time)

to me i am not sure for myself because i have never been beaten up, but i have had MANY name-callings before, and tend to deal with most of them well.

but all-in-all, i would think that verbal abuse would have more effect because it can leave emotional scars that can lead to depression and so on.