i work very hard to not respond to the emotional response that stimulates. And i've learned to observe it in myself, which is a fascinating thing. It's kind of like my brain saying, you don't want to get in this fight, because you could lose and die. So when someone insults you, the best path is to take it. Be humiliated, signify humiliation, because then it's over. You need to find that mental path. When you can learn to just sort of let it slide off, it's really, it's quite, quite liberating.
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.