Humans Crave Violence Just Like Sex

[Cheese]

New research on mice shows the brain processes aggressive behavior as it does other rewards. Mice sought violence, in fact, picking fights for no apparent reason other than the rewarding feeling.
The mouse brain is thought to be analogous to the human brain in this study, which could shed light on our fascination with brutal sports as well as our own penchant for the classic bar brawl.
In fact, the researcher say, humans seem to crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs.

Violence craving!!



So do you think this is why we have a fascination with Hockey and the Yanks with Football? What about those who are truly pacifist? Do they still want to pound something or secretly enjoy watching a good bloody Boxing match? How do you explain the Euros fascination with Soccer...is that why they have hooligans because Soccer isnt a tough enough sport? (I kid I kid!!)

Thoughts?

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

I've often thought of sports as a way of sublimating and controlling a kind of innate appetite for "tribalized" violence--thus the affiliation with your city and so on...

...but I for one will choose sex over violence every time.

[Cliche]

Those who are truly pacifist are probably better able to divert those energies into say, hookers and blow.

It doesn't mean that people aren't attracted to accidents, crime scenes, blood sports, britney spears, or unfortunate accidents that happen to people (ala darwin awards). Also theres sex as violence, which is a very taboo subject... That whole, I love you/I hate you thing which generates probably the same emotional intensity.


There is probably a good reason why people are still enamored with violence, as having a singular unifying structure which minimizes the individual can stratify and generate cascading failures of structure. The anarchists were right to a certain point. Anyways it's still a fundamental question for each individual to ask who they are and what do they want. Where are they going? (Yes it can be whittled down to B5 questions, which are universal themes anyways.)

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Cliche

Those who are truly pacifist are probably better able to divert those energies into say, hookers and blow.

I'll never get tired of the hookers & blow.

[MelBridgeman]

i like to mix it up

[CaptainCrunch]

I've always said that there is no chance for peaceful co-existance for any stretch of time when it comes to humanity.

Our instinct is to fight, for greed, territory, sex, a hat hitting the ground.

A big part of our evolution is the destruction of the weak.

We take what we want, give nothing back.

We might have peace for a generation, we might talk about useful dialog, but at the end of the day, our legacy is naked aggression against our neighbor.

The movie starship troopers was a bit of fluff and silliness, but I remember one set of lines

Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.
[to Carmen]
Jean Rasczak: You.
Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

[getbak]

I like to be efficient and combine the two.

[FlamesAddiction]

I think it's nature's way of weeding out certain individuals.