Is bad to be interested in violence?

[Millennie Al]

I’m interested in violence,... I have no desire to harm anyone.
Am I a bad person?

If you are, it's not because of that. The only bad bit is the perpetration of violence against those who do not consent.

[plodder]

Some people literally study sex, and not because they want to spend all their time w.nking.

It's possible to be interested in something and it not be down to a fetish.

Of course, but if you're excited by sex... (see the distinction?)

Of course people literally study sex, it's a cornerstone of psychology for starters. There really aren't that many biological drivers that motivate us. Hunger, sex, thirst, shelter, that's about it. These are the building blocks.

[Bird on a Fire]

Ooo, do birdwatching next. Do I want to eat birds, drink their blood, f.ck them, or use them to construct some kind of makeshift bivouac?

[plodder]

Ooo, do birdwatching next. Do I want to eat birds, drink their blood, f.ck them, or use them to construct some kind of makeshift bivouac?

Many of the more subtle motivations we have (e.g. hobbies like birdwatching) are of course a result of multiple complex interactions, but they are rooted in basic physiological drivers.

This is bog standard psychology, e.g. 2 secs on google: https://positivepsychology.com/motivati ... -behavior/

I'd suggest that the motivations behind putting silly music on war videos or fighting for fun are slightly less complex to unpick. I mean it could be 4-D chess that's going on here. But, you know.

[Opti]

Where is our resident Positive Psychology investigator when we need him?

[plodder]

Where is our resident Positive Psychology investigator when we need him?

lol, sure the ratios and management speak etc is all bollocks. Feel free to ignore that bit and just refer to the multiple standard textbooks they reference in the article.

[Bird on a Fire]

Heh, you said secs

[tenchboy]

Heh, you said secs

says he who just said w*zards sl**ve!

[plodder]

Heh, you said secs

fab

[noggins]

https://www.theonion.com/vanquished-foe ... 566338/amp

[causan_dux]

Notwithstanding a separate thread, chess is so remote from sexual competition like "finding and keeping a mate" as to make it nonsense.

We chessplayers are as impelled as any others by the primal drivers of life, the four Fs: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and fianchettoing the bishop

[Bird on a Fire]

Well I've never heard it called that before