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This is a long and rambling discourse with a good many sweeping generalizations and an imprecise use of the word aggression as Lorenz defines it. Lorenz's book, On Aggression, has the title in German, The So-Called Evil. Man among all animals has a unique view of the world; his delusional thinking becomes contagious amid ailing social organization and this leads to violence and war so that 'we kill because we are civilized'. This fury has nothing to do with the real fury of an animal reacting to a predator of a different species. Man's violence is difficult to comprehend as a simple biological drive. (This differs from Lorenz.) Rather, it is a typical human attitude born of distorted emotion and thinking following feelings of helplessness.