According to Girard, “religion is a mechanism by which humans defend themselves against their own violent natures”.  To Girard, we are, at our very core, violent; we can’t help it! So in order to dispel the violence we must have ritualistic acts or some other type of violent-like activity in order to project our aggression on to, rather then on to each other, other animals, etc. It is obvious to see what Girard thinks about violent films, video games and television; they are all outlets, they all allow us to project our violent urges onto/into something other than reality, and fulfill our ‘innate desires’.  Now, while I do believe that humans have a ‘violent’ side, if that is what you want to call it, I don’t know that it is as evilas Girard is making it seem. Going back to the beginning of man, we needed hunter qualities in order to survive. We were hunted, and we hunted. We needed to protect ourselves and some of those personality traits that are linked to a hunter/warrior can be seen as and considered violent. While we have evolved since then, our innate needs and reactions still come in to play, we are beings of survival and will do anything we need to do to keep our lineage going. If we feel threatened, we react, it is in our blood, but that this reaction is alwaysviolent, I am not so sure I agree. I also don’t know that I agree with the idea that just because I sometimes enjoy watching an ‘investigative’ show where they show dead bodies, fights, etc. that I am drawn to it because i need a release for my violent urges. It seems a little preposterous. . . but then again, another natural trait of humans is denial!