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Wonder if these rituals are more about knowing that your brothers are capable of cruelty and violence, thus actually feeling safer among them and emboldened to be violent if necessary
That’s a stretch, in my opinion, but I could well be wrong. Personally it didn’t bother me one bit, it was just a heavy pat on the back....but it takes very little for a band of monkeys to undergo a phase shift from play fighting to brutal beatings.
I suppose it can be one of the ways that the group maintains boundaries, part of the communication of group - bringing outsiders closer to the centre - but the determinative factor is the individual’s framing of the ritual, not the performance of the ritual by itself.
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