Aggression—Good or Bad?

TT is a striking fact that quite a number of words, whilst retaining their official dictionary meaning, gradually come to have for us what we might call a new "emotional mean-ing"; and usually this has a much more derogatory colouring than had the original. A good example would be "asylum"; and another is "aggres-sion". We speak of "aggressive wars" as though these were an especially wicked type, although any war, by its very nature, must be aggressive in the real meaning of the word. And we associate aggression very closely with our concept of violence and violent crime.