To use the feeble joke told to first-year medical students, the SNS mediates the “four Fs—fear, fight, flight, and sex.”
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the result is more oxygen and glucose for the muscles.
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with the usual advantages and disadvantages of categorizing a continuum.
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Which reminds us that we don’t hate aggression; we hate the wrong kind of aggression but love it in the right context.
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The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference
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Can you ever separate doing good from the expectation of reciprocity, public acclaim, self-esteem, or the promise of paradise?
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Then there’s another version of “This isn’t personal”—targeting someone just because they’re weak and you’re frustrated, stressed, or pained and need to displace some aggression.
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While a few other species have regular nonreproductive sex, we’re the only ones to talk afterward about how it was.
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we use the same muscles as does a male chimp attacking a sexual competitor, but we use them to harm someone because of their ideology.
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When it’s the “right” type of aggression, we love it.