Those who act primarily out of Warrior Instinct
are constantly engaged in one-upmanship.

One-upmanship is the attempt
to use a conversation, judgement, or social situation
to extract a brief feeling of being
mentally quicker than someone else.

How it works -
One-upmanship can take many forms.
Most of them are so small, and fly past so quickly, that those who are being 'upped' don't even realize its happening.
It can be a simple passing comment from a neighbor, "Shouldn't you be trimming that other tree first?"

For someone who acts out of Warrior Instinct, it is a slow steady morphine drip of moments where they try to feel like they are mentally quicker than someone else.

The only reason
you would need to subconsciously do this
is to compensate for an awareness
that you are actually mentally slower than other people.

These people are medicating themselves with their own behavior.

They are addicted to one-upmanship.

If you call them on their behavior they will become defensive and angry.
Attaching emotional content to a logistical situation is one clear indication
that someone is protecting themselves from becoming aware of their instinctive behavior.

Fair And Balanced -
One of the more dramatic attempts at one-upmanship is the proliferation of 'Fake News'.
These are television and radio programs that feature presenters that are acting primarily out of Warrior Instinct, giving their opinions about recent news items.

The basis of the stories they present is that whoever they are talking about isn't thinking or acting the way that the presenter believes they should be thinking or acting.

These 'Fake news' programs don't present news stories.
They present their own personal opinions
about other people's behavior.

Those who act primarily out of Warrior Instinct will distort news stories to protect their delusions that they are right and other people are wrong. The need to lie and distort comes from the realization that no matter how many 'news stories' they produce about a specific person and their behavior, they have no effect in changing that person's behavior.

This puts the presenter into a progressive loop of ever increasing negative judgements, and the use of more and more progressively damning labels, (communist, Nazi, devil worship, etc) to try to extract a brief feeling that they are mentally quicker than the person they are talking about.
But, these feelings of one-upmanship are only momentary as they make their negative judgements, and so, must be repeated often to keep the feeling going.

These 'news programs' are popular with others who act primarily out of Warrior Instinct.
It protects their own denial.

All of this is done
to satisfy the needs of a small group of humans
so they can feel a brief feeling
of being mentally quicker than someone else.