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Back in the days only people with a strong will to survive did, infact, survive and the genes from those people are in all of us. Many like to pretend they don't posses these features but that's only because you're living a modern comfortable life, so you never need to rely on it. Especially compared to what it would've been 10k years ago.
You can take any modern man, and put him along with his family in a house and place an angry stranger pounding at the door shouting threats at his wife and kids and you'll soon discover the violence you just thought wasn't there.
As an incredibly nonconfrontational, emotionally flat person, I would absolutely lose my shit if someone were threatening my wife and child.
Pure anger and rage if I felt they were in danger. It's kinda nuts actually.
I am aware of how I can channel that to be productive in familial protection and not make things worse, so I wonder what the difference is between people that can control it and those that can't.