Explained to my sons that war is actually horrible, but boys think it's exciting because they imagine it's like their lion-cubs-wrestling version of fighting writ large, and no one wants to give them nightmares by telling them what it's really like.
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Hope we trend toward allowing them — and boys broadly — to do their human-equivalent lion cub-wrestling, because it's important to develop the intutions around that, see it for what it is, & learn what it's not. Right now we're just pretending the impulse is fully non-adaptive.
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yes, sport in general scratches that itch
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My 6-year old son has a rare bleeding disorder and is the most pugilistic child I know. Only way I can scratch that itch is to wrestle with him daily.
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Aside from sport, conquest has historically been the way to exercise ambition, competitiveness, & productivity. While the analogies b/n war & business are usually less important than the disanalogies, entrepreneurship is in fact the only widescale alternative to war & conquest.
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New Zealand's good at rugby... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_RvfRKIkY …
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I would say wrestling or any 1v1 sport or combat is better for understanding these things.
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