Crowds of people watch death as a form of entertainment in the colosseum. They watch people mauled by animals, and clearly it's part of the appeal of bull fighting. But i do think a to take another way of thinking about this, when we think about,. ah, the roman gladiators and the colosseum - where crowds of people watchDeath is hovering over them. And that adds a certain frizen, ouncing a gray, a certain frison of of intensityi pay attention. Something here is happening that's serious. Don't miss it.
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.