Originally Posted by elphenor

Yeah but in modern day rich societies senseless violence is exceedingly rare

you have domestic violence and gang related violence accounting for the incredible majority

so it seems like we'd want to look at the causes there, rather than suppose some natural violence thing in the male brain (these assumptions almost always turn out wrong)

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.