Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, no 'higher' virtues can be entertained. You need to be alive to philosophize. You can add to these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them from the equation altogether you aren't just leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization possible.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.

It must be scary to stand up for beliefs also held by Eric Holder.