Change The Violent

 If someone is being violent and I limit my effort to trying to trying to change the situation, the violent person will be unchanged.  You can arrest someone, but that does not make the person a less violent person.  So I try to act so as to make the violent person think about and face their violence.  I think that is what the great spiritual teachers did.  They try to get you to take a good look at yourself.  Buddha and Jesus did not change a violet culture, and indifferent culture.  They tried to change the person.  Keep that in mind when you are trying to do good.  If you discipline someone, say a child, do they change behavior or change rom within?