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Merry Christmas UG and OG
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<p style="line-height: 20.8px;">Have a Merry Christmas (or Wanderlei Silva will go all Pride rules on you :-)</p>
On this the kindest, most giving day of the year, it only makes sense to talk about fighting. Sheridan explained why, in his great "A Fighter's Heart" which in turn borrows from Nobel Laureate Conrad Lorenz.
"Those that fight each other harder do better. Lorenz takes interspecies aggression several steps further. He talks about geese and says that two furiously aggressive animals must bond and live together in a small space, all without weakening intra-species aggression. They have evolved inhibitors, behavior-changing devices, that turns the aggression they normally feel toward others of their species into something else when they mate.
"The same thing, although in a more complex way takes place among men and women of the same tribe of family, bound together for increased success against the outside world. Lorenz writes that friendship is found only in animals with "highly developed intra-species aggression," and goes on to say that the more aggressive the animal, the deeper the friendship. The ability to love and form bonds has evolved as a way to temper aggression, to turn it into something more powerful when defending hearth and home. Friendship and love are essentially evolutionary by-products of aggression. Men and women who form these deep bonds - who evolved ways to mitigate interspecies aggression - have great success in passing along their genes.
"That's the secret, it's all about love."
Our sport, it's all about love. So merry Christmas hippies, and love one another. Or at least leave a Merry Christmas below.
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