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Those societies which give their infants the greatest amount of physical affection were characterized by low theft, low infant physical pain, low religious activity, and negligible or absent killing, mutilating, or torturing of the enemy.

— James W. Prescott Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence (1975)

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