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With everything in life, practice makes perfect. You learn to ride a bike without training wheels over time. You perfect algebra skills as you practice and accumulate knowledge on how to execute the problems. It takes years of culinary school to learn to be a master chef and then more time to perfect each recipe. Everything in life takes time to learn and do well including things frowned upon by the general population such as beatings and killings. In the book Kindred by Octavia Butler, Rufus and others who have violent personalities by the end of the novel were not naturally so. Violence is a learned behavior, first observed, then enforced by others, perfected by practice, and executed in an environment supportive of the actions. After two months of living in the harsh life of a slave, Dana was still unable to understand the violence of the plantation. She had witnessed and received whippings and beatings but even after experiencing them first hand she could not grasp the inhumanity of it and certainly could not picture herself performing these painful actions. “Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation…The books depressed me, scared me…ante bellum whites had known quite a bit