Atrocity (n.) is apt to change its moral color when committed by 'our' side.
An Atrocity (n.) is never the lesson we think it is — No massacre protects against the next one.
Atrocity (n.) is arrived at via a road paved by ideology.
Atrocity (n.) is tied to religion — people will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities.
Beating someone up (n.) is followed by the discovery that your own hand also hurts quite a lot.
Beating someone up (n.) gets told as a story for years by the winner and never by the loser.
Beating someone up (n.) settles who is stronger and nothing that was actually being argued about.
Beating someone up (n.) is what an argument becomes when one side runs out of sentences.
Black-on-black violence (n.) is a phrase that makes a neighborhood's problem sound like a race's problem.
Black-on-black violence (n.) is at root a futile effort by blacks to negate the dehumanized identity imposed upon them.
Brutality (n.) is force that has stopped needing a reason.
Brutality (n.) is generally carried out by people who have been told they are keeping order.
Brutality (n.) is pleasure in forcing one's will upon other people.
Brutality (n.) is justified only when it calls forth an equally strong reaction to the intellect.