normative

Healthy relationship to violence avoids two extremes

A healthy relationship to violence neither fetishizes and romanticizes it nor demonizes and represses it as evil; instead it looks at violence as what it is, which leaves a person better prepared and is a psychologically healthier way to live.

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Speaker

Matt Thornton

Evidence Quote

violence is so in intrinsic to our nature as human animals as part of who we are and i don't think anything good comes from repressing those instincts

Source

316 - Self-defense Reality And FantasyMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:18:07 AM

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