Why do humans have a tendency for violence?

While many biological anthropologists have, like Carrier, arrived at the former conclusion, albeit for different reasons, cultural anthropologists tend to argue for the latter. read more

Violence (albeit controlled in some manner and generally aimed at non humans) was always a part of that history and it is only in the last few hundred years in which people no longer have to be involved in this violence to get their Big Mac. read more

Terror management theorists explain how when we feel small and humiliated, we'll do anything to feel big. From the crises in the Middle East to mass shootings in U.S. schools to the reckless striving for wealth and world domination, there is one overarching theme that almost never gets media coverage—the sense of insignificance that drives destructive acts. read more