An ape will kill another apeit might use a rock, a tool that that it is improvised. But the range of tool making among humans makes violence among humans very different. We no longer are simply anticipating that he has a hand behind his back. It's almost as if we're virtualizing higher and higher stress, right? And like this, the concern becomes likened to 'i'd better get mine first'
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.