Defensive weapon against mob assault on an individual minding his own business making a life on his own and everyone else wants his share he or she developed for themself or his or her family forward for generations to come.
Homo sapien is a predatory species but can be programmed as social prey/scavengers within their own family, social order, species between conflicting interpretations of life exceeds evolving here now.
Reality is governed by insect hive/colony mentality. wannabes anything other than all they ever are as displaced, ants pulling rubber tree plants, termites eating what the other two developed, cockroaches poaching off all three.