The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58270   Message #922931
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Mar-03 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where does the violence come from?
Subject: RE: BS: Where does the violence come from?
Wars don't start because people feel violent towards each other. The people who start the war very rarely get directly involved in the violence, that happens much lower down.

An ability to switch ourselves into a mode of being in which we can cope with being violent, and having violent things happen to us - that may well have some kind of genetic component, which makes it possible for fighting to actually take place. But that's not why we get into those situations collectively.