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The History of Warfare and the Psychology of Violence

We humans are a fundamentally physical species and we've evolved for face-to-face contact. When that goes away, when the distance between people's, between people increase, then others become abstract. The history of warfare basically is all about this. We go from bows and arrows to cannons to artillery. You need to really do your best as an army to make average people actually capable of violence. Now, how can we do that? We can do it by increasing the distance, both the physical distance and the psychological distance.

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