« If animals can compete and fight without dying, it is because of instinctual inhibitions that ensure the control of natural weapons, claws and teeth.
The violence that the filters of inhibition will not stop because they are without danger between unarmed adversaries will become fatal from the moment when the adversaries are armed with stones.
If instead of throwing branches at each other, as they sometimes do, chimpanzees learned to throw stones at each other, their social life would be turned upside down. Either the species would disappear, or like humanity, it would have to give itself prohibitions. »
René Girard
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