thletes do have to be
             aggressive to a point, so that the team can form a strategy to win. There is also a limit to
             aggression when it turns into violence. People might say that it's not aggression or
             violence, it's just adrenaline pumping. Adrenaline isn't even similar to violence.
             Aggression, maybe, but nothing that would be harmful to anyone else. This might be a
             factor to why contact sports are so popular. For example, football, hockey, rugby,
             wrestling, and boxing. Contrary to predictions of instinct theory, several studies show that
             contact sports exist and thrive in the same societies that have high rates of aggression and
             violence. Unfortunately, another belief is that contact sports teach discipline, self-respect,
             and self-defense. (8. May ) Contact sports aren't a positive way to teach these things.
             Being physically tough helps, but it also needs to be left on the field when the game is
             over. This can also lead to the abuse of family, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, and any
             other person who gets in their "way", because athletes use these sports as a way to get
             their aggression and angers out. ( 10. Hauser, Powers, Noam ) Other's might argue that
             it's skill, and not in the least way violent. Although we really can't give a straight and to
             the point answer to the question "Is aggression an Instinct?" We can say that in man, as in
             other animals, there exists a physiological mechanism, when stimulated, it rises both
             subjective feelings of anger and to physical changes, which relate to fighting. This is easily
             set off, and like other emotional responses, it is very stereotyped, and instinctive. Just like
             one person is like a very angry person; they resemble one another at the psychological
             level. The way in which humans adapt to and control their feelings of rage. ( 5. Toch) The
             mechanisms in which these body changes, the functions tha...