Virtuous violence: hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships

The point 1. Why are people violent? 2. Violence is morally motivated to regulate social relationships 3. Defense, punishment, and vengeance 4. The right and obligation of parents, police, kings, and gods to violently enforce their authority 5. Contests of violence: fighting for respect and solidarity 6. Honor and shame 7. War 8. Violence to obey, honor, and connect with the gods 9. On relational morality: what are its boundaries, what guides it, and how is it computed? 10. The prevailing wisdom 11. Intimate partner violence 12. Rape 13. Making them one with us: initiation, clitoridectomy, infibulation, circumcision, and castration 14. Torture 15. Homicide: he had it coming 16. Ethnic violence and genocide 17. Self-harm and suicide 18. Violent bereavement 19. Non-bodily violence: robbery 20. The specific form of violence for constituting each relational model 21. Why do people use violence to constitute their social relationships, rather than using some other medium? 22. Metarelational models that inhibit or provide alternatives to violence 23. How do we end violence? 24. Evolutionary, philosophical, legal, psychological, and research implications The denouement.