"I've always been puzzled by that. Why would i be sad when in a person in a movie dies or is harmed? It's fiction," he says. "My brain is hyja, my emotional reaction, and i havea avicral reaction, tis that i really don't have control over." He explains why we cry about other people in a movieor with other people - but also why do we care they die? 'A people cause plays these things to sort of keep them alive,' he adds.
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.