Wise Aggression

Not all aggression is made alike.

Why is it in modern society we perceive all aggression as being bad? Certainly there is some petty aggression which is bad, but there are also circumstances in which it is wise to be aggressive.

For example when you’re on the freeway and you need to change lanes, and there are some people acting erratically around you, often times the wise driving decision is to actually be a little bit more aggressive when changing lanes etc.

Or, when countries perceive another country as a threat, perhaps pre-aggression is actually a wise idea. For example, World War II era, before Germany and the Nazis went to war, maybe the wise thing that America should’ve done was to perceive Hitler and Germany and the Nazis as a threat, and should have actually preemptively gotten in, and forcibly removed Hitler, which might have saved 90% of human lives, resources, etc.