Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
...Seems to me that most successful cultures are the ones that use violence, when and if they have to...a few folk who seem to find war and conflict, extremely rewarding, if not "fun."
Read some Hawai'ian pre-1778 (or even pre-XXth Cent.) history. The peoples of Central Asia, the Balkans, and the Middle East fought in a constant, desperate competition for resources in order to survive. In Hawai'i, the landscape throws food at you so, as near as I can figure, fighting was an intersection of lethal organized sport and artistic expression.