Ideology.

Its not even religion - many deaths were caused by political, religious, ethnic, and other ideas.

Everyone holds various views, and unfortunately we would rather see the end justify the means rather than encourage healthy debate on issues to solve our problems.

Meh. Gotta wage sumthin'.

Because others are different

Because it is morally right- according to the nobel peace prize winner

I dunno that it can be pinned down to just one root cause. I suspect "reasons to fight" are as various as people.

War is natural. People of earlier generations used to use the rallying call that animals don't war.

However, they do. War is not a man made construct... packs of animals often go to war for turf...

Animals kill for fun... nearly every bad act humans do can be attributed to our animal lineage.



People like to blame man for war... when in reality war is natural. Modern cultures currently are fighting against such instincts, but is it no surprise that they fail from time to time?

Such progress is not something that can be done overnight, or even in a lifetime. It's something that takes many generations of work.

Not only work, but outlets... for example, why were the Olympics so important during the cold war? A time hostilities had to culled as much as possible?

Because the Olympics worked as a proxy for war.


War is instinctual, part of the laws of nature. We still have wars, because we are still more the product of nature then reasoning and global philosphy.

Ideology is what gets the people to fight, but even ideological conflicts have more material concerns behind them. The Crusades, for instance, were not really fought for Christ (especially after the first Crusade), but were rather fought so that ambitious young European noblemen, facing a land shortage at home, could build their own fiefdoms and get riches abroad. That the Pope was saying you could go to heaven if you died in the process, no questions asked, only helped the affair.

Japan in WWII just wanted to secure a proper economic sphere of influence. Certainly the idea of driving the Whites out of the Orient helped, but ultimately it was about getting steel, oil, and rubber.

We continue to wage war because people are stupid and/or gullible enough to believe that it is necessary. If everybody was educated enough and nobody was starving, we wouldn't get tricked into fighting each other.

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Hahaha, I just read this post and my first thought was "Oops, did I click on the wrong thread?"