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Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai

by Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai, Steven Pinker

This cross-cultural study examines the moral motivations behind human violence. It argues that perpetrators often perceive violent acts as necessary and morally justified methods for regulating and sustaining social relationships according to cultural ideals.

Accession 11718 ISBN 9781107088207 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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Shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents, and prototypes. -- blurb

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