ABSTRACT
The exercise of developing a metaphor of man's basic energy force or aggression seems quite removed from the actual choices that human beings make on the battlefields of life: whether or not to kill hapless Jews/blacks/gypsies/Bengali/Communists/South Vietnamese/whichever human beings. Johan Galtung of the University of Oslo, Norway, has demonstrated brilliantly that on all levels of human experience, a flux of differences provides a better basis for stability than any imposition of a rigid pattern of sameness. This chapter argues that the fusion and integration of loving and attacking create moral human behavior. One of the most terrible sides of human destructiveness is how often and easily man is led to believe that his destruction of others serves a good purpose. In the psychological literature, there are some hints as to what qualities make for human beings who can be trusted not to align themselves with destructiveness.
