The Role of Force in Human Relations

The role of force in providing the framework for human relations is simply more explicit in what we call traditional societies. No reasonable man or woman would want to live in a place where neighbors don't look after one another. In europe, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, young villagers used to put on satirical skits making fun of husbands beaten by their wives,. Even to parade them about the town, mounted backwards on an ass for everyone to jeer at. Neither did any african society burn as many witches.