Germn theory is founded upon the idea that violence spreads more widely. If you run a simulation in your mind of all the people around you, there's still some kind of cathartic feeling like yet we are assimilated as a group. And so if you're to watch a movi with your friends, and you all come out, and you're all on the same hero's journey, in a sense.
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.