On a tribal scale "the violent" organise the violence. They don't take part in it. That's one reason why it's still happening. In contemporary war, tribal lea

On a tribal scale "the violent" organise the violence. They don't take part in it. That's one reason why it's still happening. In contemporary war, tribal leaders have no direct, personal, immediate threats. They have meetings while other people do the dying for them. TBF this wasn't always true, and that didn't make war less likely. But it's true today, and there are certainly leaders who would be less casual about death if they were facing it personally.