Being prepared can reduce fear, anxiety, and losses that accompany disasters. ... People also can reduce the impact of disasters (flood proofing, elevating a home or moving a home out of harm's way, and securing items that could shake loose in an earthquake) and sometimes avoid the danger completely.
Think this? A society organized for the purpose of waging war. Sparta became a state because they were scarred by the emerging threat of a helot revolt.
C I think cause in the book it say revenge but guilt kinda has almost the same