The Challenge of the Other People Who Aren't Like You

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A few weeks after nine 11, i flew to athens, georgia, a universityi didn't flight athens. People were so paranoid,. bu not paronoid, over, not even over reacting, but reacting. I think it's the right way to think about it. You could say that if we didn't have globalized media, if that had been a local news story in new york in 19 50, you wouldn't have had that issue in athensnow.

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.