{"id":1178,"date":"2021-10-04T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:22:10","slug":"can-being-nice-prevent-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/can-being-nice-prevent-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Can being nice prevent violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/act-awareness-elearning\">ACT (Action Counters Terrorism) e-learning<\/a> is a free short course for the general public on what to be aware of and how to look out for terrorist activity in public places.\u00a0 A recurring theme in it is to be polite, to challenge people who are looking lost or suspicious, to ask if such people need assistance and offer to help such as taking them where they need to go.\u00a0 Essentially saying excellent customer service has a side effect of countering criminality.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that by being nice and polite to people it makes it hard for them to be violent and anti-social.<\/p>\n<p>What impact would it have on those who want to harm our society if everyone they came across in our society was friendly, open, polite, helpful in a self-assured way?\u00a0 Perhaps if we had such a society, there would be fewer people who wanted to harm our society in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACT (Action Counters Terrorism) e-learning is a free short course for the general public on what to be aware of and how to look out for terrorist activity in public places.\u00a0 A recurring theme in it is to be polite, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/can-being-nice-prevent-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,227,340],"tags":[345,228,342],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talking","category-terrorism","category-training","tag-talking","tag-terrorism","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}