And the closing scene of the movie, Paths of Glory. The soldiers are in a cafe, relaxing for a few moments before returning to the trenches and slaughter. A young woman sings, bringing most of the men to tears.

Colonel Dax (played wonderfully by Kirk Douglas) is outside the cafe, listening sadly to the men singing, knowing what will soon be their fate. 

An officer comes up to Colonel Dax: "I have orders to move the men back to the front immediately." The compassionate Colonel Dax says, "We'll give the men a few minutes more, sir."

The pathetic academics, armchair warriors, evolutionary psychologists who write about "male aggression." They should be ashamed of themselves. It's abundantly (empirically) clear that there is nothing "aggressive" about these young men, resigned to the miserable fate that awaits them.

They are being sent into battle "like sheep to the slaughter," victims of the institution of warfare; victims of the nation-state. Nothing whatsoever to do with their biological make-up. If there is an "aggressor," it's the French nation, willing to accede to the slaughter its their own young men.

Richard Koenigsberg

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