sapphi_snake said:
They are all "natural", but also avoidable. War is the result of human will, not of some uncontrolable natural circumstances. In nature it's perfectly natural for those who are weaker and have less desirable traits to die, but he humans go against that and try to save everybody. Lots of terrible things go on in nature, but that's because animals have no better way of solving their problems. It's simply their best solution. However, we humans have superior intellect comapred to other animals, therefore you'd think we'd be able to solve our conflicts without killing eachother. War is nothing more than those fights kids have in kindergarden or school, except the kids are much bigger, much stronger, they use guns and seriously hurt eachother, sometimes killing eachother. The main difference is that they don't even know why they're there and what the other kids ever did to them, and vice versa. |
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.








