Coltan Scrivner
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He's going to bear his fangs.
He's probably going to bite them.
He's going to push him around.
He's going to scream.
He's going to do things that look like reactive aggression.
And he does that to signal to the chimp that's transgressing him and to the other chimps around that, hey, don't try to take that from me.
I'm still the alpha chimp.
I'm still this big and strong.
And that's the way that almost every animal engages in aggression or deals with aggression when it comes to members of their own species.
Humans are different.
So we still do that.
There's still bar fights.
There's still things like that happen in humans.
But we do it to a significantly less degree than our closest primate relatives.
So instead, humans engage in a lot of what's called proactive aggression.
So this means that they sit back and they plan their aggression.
Zero killers are a good example of this.
But even like battles, like wartime battles, almost none of that is reactively aggressive unless you're defending yourself.
Most of it is you are planning and plotting on how you will attack another group of people.
This is the origins of conspiracies as well.