When a tendency toward violence evolves, it is always strategic. Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.
Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
(via Rafael Rodriguez
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