Events depicted as stark and real -- here an entire family is wiped out in a vicious "home invasion" -- allow for some peculiar anomalies, like the testimony of a dying woman that an "angel" was present, to make the violence tolerable.
At the same time they did not want to accept that reality nor accept that violence was tolerable.
At the same time they were conflicted as the RNs did not want to accept that reality nor accept that violence was tolerable.
They questioned whether patient aggression had become such a part of nurses' daily practices that it was no longer perceived as a major problem anymore indicating that perhaps nurses and management in healthcare are accepting violence as tolerable.
However an important difference was the statements by nurses in this study that they do not want to accept violence as tolerable or part of their reality which may indicate a shift towards the realization that violence in the workplace is not acceptable and nurses are becoming more empowered to take a stand.
It is no longer tolerable to turn away and pretend violence against women and girls does not exist.
Of course, with sex and violence, the boundaries of the tolerable vary from region to region.
And if their time in prison just makes them that much more angry, dangerous, and violent, then we are not only releasing people with a propensity for breaking the law, but also people who find violence and aggression more socially tolerable due to their long-term immersion in the prison culture, a culture which prides aggression, violence, and dominance.
Some said that they were letting their children out in public for the first time in months, after being too scared to do so during two major holidays, Id al-Fitr and Id al-Adha, and that even though they expected more bombs, the violence had fallen to a level they found tolerable.
At launch, he pointed out that "violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable".
