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n the essay entitled "Who killed Benny Paret?  the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. The crowds of people that attend these matches don't go to see the sport of boxing, but merely the brutality of a knock out.

The author talks about the managers that look for "killers  that can deliver a show for the audience. The reason that managers do these things is because they get more people to come to their events if they present two people beating each other to a pulp. Crowds love to see violence. You can take a very well balanced person and ask them if they would like to beat somebody to death and they probably would answer no. Now when you put that person in a crowd, there is a whole different mentality. Benny Paret was killed by the people that left the arena that night and though that was the best fight they have ever seen. Violence is characteristic of human nature; it can be traced all along our history. When the Romans used the Coliseum, the lives of many humans were taken in that field just for the pleasure of the crowd and the emperor. We cannot say that in modern society violence has increased. Violence has been with us since the time that our ancestors walked the Earth for the very first time.

Another example of violence can be found on our very own American history. Very early in our history, in the town of Salem, women found to be witches were condemned and put to death. It was kind of silly to put someone to death without any