How do we know how people are going to respond to action when they see violence on the screen? i come from a family that watched a lot of mark's brothers and laurel and hardy and charley chaplain. You shouldn't be putting harry potter violence into god of warnis not going to work, even thoughit's the same people donb playan vice versa exactly. This is where, again, the mere neron system can go crazy and sort of like over virtualized.
Stuntman and action designer Eric Jacobus joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a no-holds-barred discussion of the biological basis for violence and how to avoid the worst of it, the value of violence as spectator sport, and the vast superiority of duels to feuds--Alexander Hamilton notwithstanding.