A few hundred years ago people would punish the sick and sometimes throw them into wells, making the rest of the village sick. I wondered if violence could be modeled as a plague. Once you're exposed, you're starting to catch it. Imagine that being violent to violent people spreads this disease.

That resonates with what you said - if we could absorb violence and not pass it on we can contain it. Unfortunately, the western world handles violence with more violence, which is the same as throwing a sick person into the village well.

> A few hundred years ago people would punish the sick and sometimes throw them into wells, making the rest of the village sick.

It kind of reminds me how Fox News selects its presenters. They’d definitely be the ones a sane society would try to punish.