filtherton

Whomever dies first.

You ever shot your way into a loving marriage? Punched a complete stranger into being your friend? Stabbed your way through a job interview and gotten the job? How many body slams does it take to read a book?

Without discretion, violence is nothing, it's less than useless. There are a whole lot of things that coercion just can't get for you.

I don't think that there is necessarily anything profound about always having the option to hit somebody. What is interesting is that that option taken so little, that so many people seem to see the value in avoiding violence altogether.

That doesn't even make sense. Infants are completely helpless. In order to "have them survive into adulthood" there would have to be some sort of intervention i.e. socialization. Even if you were able to somehow raise them without impressing on them any socialization at all, their actions would still be governed more by economics than violence. Animals, despite being completely uncivilized, generally only use violence as a means of defending their resources or playing.

You're putting the cart before the horse here.