Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness ( Rebellious Angels Eighth Part) Not long ago a particularly aggressive man behaviour was said bestial; since they were acts induced by the genetic-animal inheritance the definition was partly appropriate. Now the word monster[1],[2] is used for those who commit the most brutal actions.
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 Fifth Part) Intraspecific human aggressiveness: recently “Carmageddon ” has appeared; it’s a videogame where to collect points, it is necessary to massacre passers-by in town and peasants and cows in the country with a futuristic weapon. There are shouts, splashes of blood, red strips on the asphalt and even a corpse count up on the right side of the screen.
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.
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