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JIMENEZ-PONCE, Fiacro  y  JIMENEZ-RAMIREZ, Fiacro. Aggressiveness and violence – An issue. Rev. med. Hosp. Gen. Méx. [online]. 2024, vol.87, n.2, pp.72-79.  Epub 13-Ago-2024. ISSN 2524-177X.  https://doi.org/10.24875/hgmx.23000056.

Frequently, aggressiveness and violence are used as synonymous. However, these are two complex and different phenomena that scientists and philosophers have studied. In this paper, we make a difference between aggressiveness and violence. Aggressiveness must be considered utilitarian behavior that harms or destroys objects or subjects. Aggressiveness is a primitive way to conduct, and here, we discuss anatomic and functional encephalic systems. This involuntary and instinctive behavior is triggered when the animal is required to hunt a press, defend its territory when young, or compete for a mate for reproductive purposes. The aggressiveness will be violence when it pursues a social, political, economic, or criminal goal. A violent or aggressive act is not distinguished by the outcome but by intentionality. Indeed, a violent action could have the same material consequences as an aggressive act with a different goal. Aggression-violence is a biological phenomenon and the result of culture, societal life, political relations, and current moral conditions. We often tend to simplify the phenomena, and we have discussed aggressiveness-violence, but there are also other phenomena, such as empathy and mirror behavior. Empathy, compassion, and affection should be studied alongside the aggressive-violent process.

Palabras llave : Aggressiveness; Violence; Psychosurgery; Stereotaxis; Biological evolution.

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