In the early 19 hundreds, there are old films of people still sword duelling. You can watch these, and they don't normally end in death. And it seems as though that kind of situation, even though you may not die, even though there may not be a dead body at the end, the fact that you are anticipating possibly dying does something to you when you enter these equations. That taps into something that's very deep within us, which is, if you're to imagine, again, going back to the mirror under merenera virtualizer, it's so open ended all the time. For example, when, when a relative dies, all the things that they want to
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.