eli5: Why do we destroy/feel the urge to destroy things when angry? How does that relieve anger/stress?

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eli5: Why do we destroy/feel the urge to destroy things when angry? How does that relieve anger/stress?

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I doubt anyone really knows. But I think the urge is actually just an urge to use our body in a smashy way and the broken things are usually collateral. Maybe the items (or people) we choose to destroy are chosen because the sight of them increases our feeling to want to destroy past the threshold, or maybe they just happen to be in front of us when we get to that point. 

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