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Wikipedia states
“Bloodlust is a desire for extreme violence and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture”
“The killer instinct is the human propensity to do whatever it takes to survive or achieve a goal, even killing another human being. Often present in fighting, wars and confrontation, it is believed that some humans possess an ability to kill another human in order to achieve a goal. Examples include soldiers in the army, fighters such as boxers, and mixed martial artists, who often display a form of this when trying to finish off an opponent, whereas it is argued that the main goal is to master self-defense in fighting arts“.
Maybe our propensity for extreme violence is beyond proper understanding. A lot of violence happens because somewhere we have been hurt or because of the way our parents treated us etc. But it seems there is also violence in us that is just “There” Maybe,even when a high degree of professional training and control is applied to Soldiers, the innate tendency to extreme violence cannot always be fully contained in the heat of battle ?
Maybe it has always been so - and always will be ?