Ritualistic Violence Theory
Ritualistic violence, whether forced onto another person without provocation or during a combative scenario, should be engaged dynamically as per necessity and situation.
There are predators (those who create violent situations), there are ordinary people who get caught up in the aggression, emotion and violence of a situation and then there are those who are simply habitually violent i.e. given the chance or excuse they’ll become violent.
It doesn’t matter what their motivations are e.g. if they are addicted to the adrenaline high of violence, or use it as a means to establish their position of social dominance in a group or if they simply need to assert and convince themselves of who they believe they are; the toughest / hardest guy on the planet, the person who won’t be “disrespected” etc, given a reason they will become violent.
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