Having boxed for 2 years, and fought in the streets as a kid, I am not in denial about violence being a &#x27;core&#x27; part of our current humanity. I think we can evolve away from it. For the record, it is about the individual for me, no groups or groupthink or tribalism as hinted at by &quot;our group is better than your group&quot;, which I think should only be a sentiment for when we are immature and do not know better. Now in my older age, I apologize for something more readily and sooner than when I was a teenager, even if I have not convinced myself I am at all wrong. Maturity, and in my case sobriety, help me greatly to try and grow, and redirect or solve my personal or interpersonal issues in a less violent, more creative and positive manner including eliminating abusive, berating, or condescending speech. I am not &#x27;PC&#x27; by any means, but I am more human, I think by finding compassion and empathy where I once looked as might as a last resort in a failing intellectual argument. We poison ourselves and solve nothing with negative rage, or energy. Turning upset into a personal challenge. I am but a naive fifty-something hoping to one-up myself. Fortunately, my children are already more emotionally, and intellectually mature than when I was their age, and I am this in comparison to my father. This is my &#x27;empirical&#x27; evidence of evolving away from violence without violent substitution.