Can it be that we are already TOO civilised as a society? or at least try to be?

Question

I mean it seems that in the past animal instincts were not so much repressed but civilised, duelling allowed fights to the death but in a controlled way with rules. Of course for obvious and very good reasons such practises were outlawed, but could it be that with the outlawing of all uncivil sports such hunting bans and the decline of fighting sports like boxing we have actually increased violent crime as just an output for our repressed animal instinct?

to answer the second guy, in England there has been a steady rise in street violence, and knife crime is becoming a small epidemic. as for America, well with the amount of school shootings it either had to drop or it would be considered civil war.

Answer 1

civilisation is all relative. what counts towards being considered civilised and who decides?

I think that you have therefore posed an unanswerable question or at least are asking for an answer that no one can ever be completely right on.

However I actually do agree with you that by continually banning all so called violent sport, you are just creating a pressure cooker that will only get released one way and thats going to be big, loud and violent

Answer 2

The premise of your argument is incorrect as there has been a steady downward trend of violent crime since 1994 (the oldest figures available on the FBI site)

Answer 3

society still on learning curve not civilised enough yet but were working on it i hope ......

Answer 4

i prefer the other or the "primitive" ways myself.