Chuck Bryant

Probably not, but you never know.

It's possible, or they might talk it out at least.

Yeah, or just agree that it's dumb and leave.

Yes.

But you talked about studies in the animal world.

There's a primatologist named Franz de Waal who looked at wild chimps, recorded 350 encounters, aggressive encounters between these chimps, and then what happened afterward.

And in 51% of these encounters...

The chimps would literally kind of kiss and make up and touch each other and embrace each other after a fight.

We've seen the same thing in bonobos, in great apes.

There's sheep, there's dolphins, there's goats.

Even hyenas have shown traits of forgiveness.

So it's not ubiquitous, but it is all over the animal kingdom.

Animals fighting and then animals making up with one another.

Right.

So, I mean, the revenge one's pretty easy to understand, but then you're like, okay, well, why would there be the making up part?

But that also ties into the fact that these same animals are also living in social, tight-knit social groups.

And so you have a limited amount of people that you can possibly have a dispute or a feud with.

And if you're not working together cooperatively, in that sense, also your chances of survival are decreased.

So what makes sense is what's called the valuable relationship hypothesis, which says if somebody hits you, you should hit them back.

But then after that, you should make up with them.