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.
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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Learned a lot from 15 years playing rugby and various other sports!
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It turns out this is what rugby is for.
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