Popularity means that you can get help. We aren't in the early environment any more, and I don't think we have quite the same reflexes.
Also note that if violence is a possibility, older men get safety and dominance by their ability to recruit younger men, not by their ability to do their own fighting.
Have another angle-- in civilization, winning means coming out ahead while cooperating.
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