Maybe bootcamp and a six month tour of duty would help literally. Our ancestors were constantly at war or hunting wild animals or caring for a farm under hard conditions, living perhaps short brutal lives. Just imagine a group hunting mammoths or slaughtering chickens you raised from chicks or perhaps watching your child die of hunger at two years old. Modern warfare even is a computer game. Celts had lots of shrunken heads tied to their hips of all those they killed in battle. Just imagine an average mama' s boy is expected at sixteen to go into battle kill people then rape and pillage the village of the enemy. Beforehand paint all over the body and hyped up on drugs. Females would be aware of these dangers in general and fearful of the average male. Everyone was a murderer, rapist and/ or used to killing animals close up with a knife, watching them bleed to death. Civilization, cities made us docile zoo animals. The Buddha, Jesus codified this. Knights had a code of honour towards woman. Nowadays war crimes are defined. Darker behavior of the past is called psychopathic but wild animals might be like that. OTOH wolves, bears eat fish, small game, are very gregarious. Maybe humans, like chimps are just cruel, unusually evil cannibalistic. Post apocalyptic fiction salivates over this stuff. This is of course cyclical. Rome collapsed in a fury then monks rebuilt Europe slowly. Now we are losing control and perhaps decline will end badly and we will start all over again. Everyone being a snowflake is a sure sign of a late stage civilization I think.
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