Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Seventh Part) When aggressiveness, which is an integral part of our genetic inheritance, causes such “inhuman” episodes like cannibalism, the emotional reaction is calling monsters those who carry them out, considering them as subjects not belonging to our society.
Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Sixth Part) All this strengthens the thesis that there is a certain percentage of underage people which changes according to the total numbers of the population with a genetic tendency to aggressiveness. In determinate historical periods such tendency may be canalized in ” institutional” forms of violence: wars, genocides, tribal fights, cultural revolutions. When this doesn’t happen, juvenile aggressiveness expresses itself, individually, in the criminal forms we have seen.
Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Fourth Part) No reason may be valid for a homicide, but homicides committed by very young people are the more terrible because they are apparently unjustified. What Angela D’Arpa, a psychologist who works with misfit young people in Harlem, tells is appaling: five boys, since they are bored, ignite a tramp in a park.
Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Third Part) When we speak of the so called child cruelty, we do nothing but state that gene tyranny manifests itself, in a direct way, in uneducated subjects.Evident examples of juvenile or anyway adolescent aggressiveness are the clashes among gangs( Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bronx), but also fights among ultras of different teams and, till some years ago, between camrades and fascists[1]
Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angel Second Part) Eventually intraspecific human aggressiveness, which started as a war among gangs, turned into the noble art of war and values, like strength,courage, war abilities were considered just among the noblest features of man.