The fallacy behind the myth of aggression is that nature and nurture are different, and that our animal (or evolutionary) core is that of a primitive beast. If this were true, then our nurture (cultural constraints) would manage an inner nature (a primitive, aggressive drive especially in men) that emerges whenever the grasp of civilization weakens. If we believe this then we will accept a wide range of interpersonal violence as inevitable, and we will see war, rape, and murder as just part of the nature of human beings