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[Farmageddon]

HappySqurriel said:

Farmageddon said:

Yeah, you'd think that. Unless of course you actually looked at the world around you. Then you'd realise no, we, as a whole, are not able to do that, at least not yet and probably not for a long time. Sucks, but it's true.

Again, everyone agrees the world would be better witohut war and famine and all that crap and that if everyone was more rational and genuinelly cared about each other we could start to walk that way. But that's just not how the world is and that's just not how it's gonna be for a long time.

Want to hate something, put your hate in the right place. As you said, it's not the army that starts a war, it's politicians. And they don't do that because they're evil politicians, they do that because they can and it's human nature. You may believe we're so different and above the rest of life. Well, we're not. In a sense we are, sure, and many of us have great capacity for empathy and clear thinking, but not we as a whole. Group thinking is inate to us, as is that us vs them mentality. Just look at a soccer game and think about it. We need a lot of conciouss effort and teaching to try and stop this natural mentality to rise and take control.

So I mantain your anger is misplaced. You hate this part of human nature, but you're still to give us a good reason to hate an army itself.

While the world on the whole may be better off without war, historically many individuals and nations have seen massive benefits from being highly aggressive; and it has only been in the last half century (or so) where the world banding together to counter aggression has made this strategy less successful. Only when being the aggressor becomes a "losing" strategy (when the costs involved greatly outweigh the potential gains) for every nation can the world truly achieve peace; and this can only be obtained if everyone has a viable military and is willing to interfere to preserve peace.

I agree. I mean, the reason all this is part of human nature, ingrained in our genes, is precisely that it has actually worked well in the past.