Revenge Really Does Taste Sweet

Wizzy Wig writes "The Toronto Star is reporting on scientific experiments showing a link between revenge and the 'pleasure center' of the human brain, thus putting a nature spin on something heretofore thought of as a nurture based, or learned, emotion."

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A minor point

[benzapp]

But, uh, human life is rather common and cheap these days. The world's population is exploding and that means that there's a lot of surplus people around. So perhaps it's best just to execute the serial killers rather than spend too much time trying to understand why they do what they do.

You have correctly identified the large surplus population in the world, but you fail to understand how nature usually deals with this problem.

People fight to survive. We have been doing this for ages. Warfare, in its organized form, directly came about due to competition over scarce (for ancient technology) farmland. There would be no phalanx formation, or body armor, without surplus population.

The best way to deal with surplus population in our age of nuclear weapons is to institutionalize combat. There should be judiciary, only referees. All disputes should be settled in the combat arena, and the judge determines if the fight was fair.

This would get rid of a huge number of inferior people, such as the obese and physically defective.

There are a million ways we can incorporate combat into our civilization again before we become wholly inhuman pussies who can barely walk let alone fight.

We must raise our children to crave the taste of blood, and strive for physical AND intellectual perfect.

The warrior culture must return, less we all are destroyed.