There's a not unreasonable chance that someone is not going to walk away alive after this is over. But at the same time, there is a norm that says, this is it no more. It's quite thought about. I think we id onstros bn, i felt, i let's pise, like i felt lke, let's fight somebody. A lot of these, ah, actual violence stimulates these strange biological things inside us that we don't fully are conscious of.
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.