When we human beings are overwhelmed with anger and fear, we slam head-on into th at resistance in the midbrain

that generally prevents us from killing. Every hum an being, with the exception of sociopaths, who by definition don't have that re What we observe throughout human history system. sistance, has this innate violence immuneis that when humans fight each other, t here is a lot of posturing. Adversaries make as loud a noise as possible, puffin g themselves up, trying to daunt the enemy. There's a lot of fleeing and submiss ion. The ancient battles were nothing more than great shoving matches. It wasn't until one side or the other turned and ran that the vast majority of the killin g happened, and most of that was stabbing people in the back. All of the ancient military historians report that the vast majority of killing happened in the pu rsuit after one side had fled.