We tear things up to live. You kill plants and animals by applying energy, you cut them up, cooking tears apart on cellular levels, you chew things up. It is how we live. Once things are torn apart enough, they are free to be added to our bodies, and grow and maintain our bodies. But if you tear apart everything, nothing lives.
People have instincts to rip and tear, move things around.
It feels good to us. If all you have is stone tools, you can do this to your heart's content, and you don't generally take too much. People put all their energy into tearing up and eating and reproducing, and they just held their own. We were just another predator. But we got good at killing and eating and growing more people.