Why human like to fight and watch fighting?

Question

why we ike to watch boxing, karaye and other bloody sports. What make us like to fight and watch fight.

Answer 1

By nature we are a violent people. Looking back at our past, we come from a primitive society of hunter-gatherers. Fighting in our earliest days was a necessity, going back to when we were tribal in nature. When all people on earth were small tribal units, territory became very important.

Another tribal group, seeking food or shelter, might wander into our lands. They presented competition, and taxed our limited resources. At the time, our societies only understood this in terms of "They might eat all of our food. We will not have food left. They need to leave". As a result, we tried to fight the newcomers off. The strongest group won.

Also, the act of hunting was a fight for survival. Us against the animal. We needed the animal's meat for food, skin for clothing, and bones for tools. We would have to fight the animal and kill it, if we were to survive.


Violence was ingrained into our brain patterns as a necessary method of survival. Being a pacifist meant that a stronger and more violent tribe could simply come by and wipe your tribe out. Thus, 3000 years ago, it was required, just to exist.

Answer 2

I reckon most of it is social pressure I often have violent urges yet find them easy to control and also I never watch people fighting (I think it encourages more violence in a world that already has far too much) I never even have an urge to watch. Anyway I put this down to my lonesome nature no society to push me to do something.

Also at school I noticed no individual led crowd building it seemed spontaneous sort of like groupthink where everyone seems to think that a particular action is what everyone else wants to do. It may be so strong that the people involved are actually under the illusion that they enjoy such things. My personal reckoning is if there was a fight and a person who would watch in a group situation probably wouldn't care might look up to see what the noise was but that's about it. (Note I've never tested this so I will be glad to listen to contradictions)

Answer 3

I've noticed this as well. We (as a human race) have an obsession with fighting and violence. Be it Boxing, war, Mosh pits, we all have some outlet of violence. Even thebiggest pacifist will have some love for a violent thing.

We all have that instinct of Kill or be killed. After eons of evolution and instinct violence is stuck in our brain even though modern ethics say it's wrong. Even though we have a Mcdonalds on every corner our brain still thinks that it has to hunt down it's own food. Inside all of us is this hunter/fighter and these bloody sports release it.

So in all Boxing, Karate, moshing, and fighting in general is a way to let millions of years of evolution work it's way out.

Answer 4

There is nothing wrong with all people who like to watch the sports that are physical. There is something stimulating about watching two people beat the **** out of each other. It's not much different then football, there are no pads. It is a fascination that humans have had for centuries. We watch war movies and scary movies for the same reason.

I Love Contact Sports it Makes it More Exciting to Watch!!

Answer 5

We are animals. We are suppose to be intelligent animals, but one of the human kinds bigger mistakes is believing that by the time we are born we are like a white-blank-page where our culture, our education and education will write everything about our personalities. That's not true. As animals, we have instincts, but by living in great cities where our basic needs are fulfilled, we look for alternative ways to scape, Violence is one of them. I strongly recommend you to read a couple of books by Desmond Morris: The human zoo and The Naked Ape. He's a serious zoologist and was the first to study the human being from a zoologist's point of view, like any other animal.

Hope it helps

Answer 6

I like to watch fighting because it is great to see humans defend themselves without weapons. Kickboxing, Karate, the Ultimate Fighting on television is exciting to watch and does give me a desire to better myself and learn how-to defend myself..maybe taking self-defense classes. Boxing in itself is great exercise. I don't think people watch these for stress relief, but I do think some people enjoy watching others get the poop beat out of them.

Answer 7

Ah yes, the age old internal conflict of the id. Whether watching "games" in the Roman Coliseum, armchair quarterbacking from the comfort of our homes, or cheering on the bloody fulfillment of a ludicrous war, people are natural schitzoids who get a thrill from seeing themselves in the shoes of warriors but who are also driven by another piece of their brain to sympathize with the victims of aggression and terror. We are complex creatures, driven by neurotic impulses we cannot always control. And there are no simple solutions. One might say get rid of boxing and such. But be cautious. To fully rid ourselves of aggressive tendencies could plop us right into the ultimate outcome depicted in H.G. Wells' Time Machine, a world of harmony and bliss subject to the whims of a more assertive class. The fact is, our aggressive side does have an important role to play in our lives. Without it, we would assume the personality of milk toast and we might well lack the ability to grow as individuals. I, for one, would not want to be so emasculated. There are important assets in a "warrior mentality." But it is up to us as the components of society to keep a handle on what are and what are not acceptable levels of behavior. To have an anarchy in which anything is acceptable, no matter who it hurts--such as tends to exist in the gang mentality--comes at too high a price. And, on the other hand, to have an Orwell 1984-type society in which individuality is outlawed is also intolerable. And so I return to my initial observation, "Ah yes, the age-old internal conflict of the id" and find it important to have faith in natural evolvement, even as I keep an open eye toward the development of society.

Answer 8

we say that the thing that makes us different from animals is how we're civilized. In Golding's Lord of the Flies he showed us wat would happen if there were no rules or civilizations. There was an article in the paper the other day about how people fight and they get a rush in their body, a feeling they cant explain. One guy even said he would choose that over sex anyday. I think that people love to see others suffer and feel pain. Its another one of those human nature things we're trying to cover up & hide. We try to break away from animals and make ourselves different, but we cant, it's nature's way

Answer 9

Fights are not necessarily humanity's need for violence. Fighting is simply an expression of the stressors we have in the simplest possible form.

In effect, people that fight often have inner problems that they wish to resolve in the simplest possible ways.

Answer 10

Some people enjoy these sports, and I have noticed that most of the people that enjoy them seem to be less educated or come from a family that is of lower class. Now please do not get me wrong, I am not trying to Judge anyone, I have just noticed this as to be the case.

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