Coltan Scrivner

We got rid of our reactive tendencies to a degree.

Humans are still reactively aggressive, particularly males.

Bar fights exist, but they exist far less than if we were chimps.

We would not be able to sit in this room together having never met.

Something would have happened.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It would have been a tense situation, not a fun situation for anybody.

Yeah.

So humans are much less reactively aggressive than most other animals and certainly most other social primates.

But we developed a new kind of aggression.

We developed what's called proactive aggression.

So now we can sit back and we can plot and think about when we're gonna attack someone and how we can do it when they're unprepared.

We make that distinction in our criminal justice system.

So if you kill someone out of a crime of passion, right?

Come home and you find your wife in bed with someone else.

Your brother.

Your brother, especially.

You're going to commit a crime of passion, right?

And you're going to get punished for that.

You'll go to jail, depending on the state and the circumstances, let's say 10 to 40 years, 10 to 30 years.