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Lighting a fire (destruction) to bake bread (construction). Cutting up a tree (destruction) to make a house (construction).
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Tearing down small muscle fibers to make a stronger muscle, as in weight lifting.
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Destroying buildings and bridges to build new and better ones.
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Using machines and explosives to mine coal, metals, and other resources. Ending a marriage to seek a happier life.
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The whole study of fracture mechanics is pretty much founded on constructive destruction. As an example, several samples of a metal alloy are tempered and then their temperatures are stabilized at several different ranges. Then the samples are broken with a machine in order to calculate how much energy it takes to fracture it and at what temperature it is susceptable to fracture. This is how they develop and test new alloys for different applications. Wouldn't want a ship to snap in half (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=s.s.+schenectady,+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title) or a bridge to fail due to the use of the wrong structural material.
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Putting a teddy bear in a bazooka or rocket launcher and shoot straight up. He'll land in space and will be in orbit for awhile, then a few months later he falls back down on your house by pure luck and utterly destroys the top of your house.
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