"If we want to understand violence, not action, we need to understand violence. How violent are we going to make it? Ink, how cathartic does it need to be?" "I think it's introspective for a lot of them," he says about his work as an action designer in movies and video games. 'You could have the same audience watching harry potter films and at the same time playing god of war games'
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.