Chuck Bryant

And that's not good for you.

It's also not good for the chances that you're going to pass along your genes.

And so under the auspices of natural selection, it makes sense for you to hit that person that steals your food or who hits you.

And that's revenge.

And revenge...

forms that function in a social group.

It says to everybody, it signals to the rest of the group, you are not to be messed with.

This guy tried it and look what happened to him.

Nobody else should try that.

Go pick on somebody else.

And there's actually been studies that have showed that not just among apes and primates, but among human cultures, revenge is found pretty much universally and

And I saw a study, Chuck, that said that the mere presence of a person, a third party, who's witnessing an argument increases the chances that the argument is going to come to blows because you're signaling to the rest of the group, and in this case, just that third person, you are not to be messed with.

That that's the purpose of revenge is to broadcast that signal.

Yeah, I mean, I would say that any kind of dumb, drunk bar fight

half of it is the fact that someone doesn't want to back down in front of other people.

Sure.

You know, more than half.

Totally.

And that if those two guys were just in an alley somewhere, they may just hug it out.

Yeah.