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Rituals are a way of regulating mans aggression. Legitimising and turning on the agression for the hunt, and turning it off and reanathematising aggression after the hunt.

The big difference to Girard is to recognise the necessity and selective advantage of aggression for both hunting and war. Rituals are not merely a means to discharge aggression, but a method to turn on aggression when it is needed, and to turn it off afterwards.