The Use of Force

First of all, what exactly is the use of force? You may think the title pretty much explain itself, but let’s dig a little deeper. The use of force can be defined as when you use strength or a certain force you are in possession of, and imply it in other people, stuff or situations. It’s having the power to have something done and use it. Let’s talk about person to person use of force. As mostly everything, the use of force has two sides to be considered: the person implying the force (person 1) and the person who it’s implied to (person 2). Sometimes the person 1 doesn’t need to use the “use of force” on person 2, and it becomes unfair, because things can have been done a better way, where person 2 didn’t need to suffer the way it did. But we have a second case, where person 2 needs something, somethings that has to be done. When person 2 imposes to receive or do what it need to, it’s actually using the use of force, and this leaves person 1 with no other choice but to use the use of force on person 2. In the story “The use of force” by William Carlos William there’s a combined case of the two discussed before. Here, we can see a doctor who is not in the best behavior or attitude toward the patient and a patient who strongly refuses to being examined by a doctor. When you read the story you think “Wow, that doctor is so imprudent and what he did was totally unnecessary”; but what about the girls attitude? She was obviously depriving the doctor from doing his job and she knew she was sick, but she still was a stuck up and didn’t cooperate when she had to, when it was all for her own health. So the doctor had to do what he had to for the little girls’ health and wellbeing. But, we can all agree that he took it a little to the extreme, for example, he saw that the girl was bleeding and he didn’t stop the pressure and force he was using on her. He even says, “But the worst of it was that I too had got beyond reason. I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. It was a pleasure to attack her. My face was burning with it.” He wanted to use the use of force, knowing her parents will agree being afraid she was dying, to see her hurt, to hear her screams and he could feel he had the power in the situation. I don’t know about you, but for me that’s a little psychotic. They both were wrong, and by implying the use of force they made the situation a lot worse. So in general, is the use of force really necessary, or is it much easier if both parties cooperate and have a peaceful agreement upon the situation?

"The use of force" by William Carlos Williams