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Violence is a word that encompasses many different acts of aggression: the parent who beats his or her child, the partner who beats or kills their spouse, the mobster who eliminates a rival, the gang of young men who rape a woman, the military or the police who torture a suspect, the child soldier who is ordered to kill, the suicide terrorist who kills himself and others, the rioter who sets fire to a car, the villager who hacks his neighbour to death with a machete. The list of what constitutes violence is endless and is so pervasive across so many societies and cultures that it forces us to ask, is it part of human nature? All societies are violent, and all individuals have the capacity for violence, but not all societies and individuals are equally violent. But if violence is a constant throughout history, what does that say about us as a species? Does violence come naturally to people or do people have to overcome their reluctance to engage in violent acts? Might modern humans find it more difficult to overcome that reluctance than people in past centuries (depending on the culture in question)? Or is violence a social tool or function that is culturally dependent?