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"wars will happen as long as humans exist" - I fundamentally disagree with this premise. I never once saw a child murder another, so why do we assume it's inevitable when people are grown? Why do we hold adults to lower standards than children.

These assumptions when they go unquestioned create the landscape for war to be accepted.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

There are, unfortunately, many examples of child murderers.

There are plenty of examples of children that aren't provided for, given the time or care required to prevent outcomes that we don't want. That doesn't mean that we accept child murder, we do everything we can to prevent it from happening. If a plane falls out of the sky, we do everything that we can do to ensure it never happens again. If we don't look at war and understand it, we won't ever have the tools to prevent it.

I can't believe a grown adult really believes something this naive.

I just assume it is a type of performance.

Maybe I am just naive. Can you shed some light and explain why you believe that war is inevitable?

he won't because all they do is project their bad childhood into a false sense of self sufficiency that is entirely based on tacticool clothes/cars while very well knowing his self sufficiency relies solely on not being part of some minority.

The way your high-powered mind leads you astray with compelling false gymnastics is impressive, but obviously satisfies its own projective emotional need. Turn your perception inward rather than finding the demons outside to make real progress?

There will always be single things that two groups feel they both entitled to, and both sides can't share it. Death is the only tool we were given to ensure a single side wins.

> Death is the only tool we were given to ensure a single side wins.

"given" implies a belief in a higher power. most of the popular ones say "don't do that".

That higher power is "if you are dead, you can no longer participate in this universe".

Perhaps OP meant that the military industrial complex will always ensure wars happen?

Incentives are there to make money from weaponry and defense contracts. Further incentives are there to take land or resources, or to simply destabilize competing nations. To stop all of this requires a pretty fundamental shift in a human machine that is still hardwired for survival.

Nope, I mean humans are like that. We always want more, we are jalous of what another one have, there are countless unsolvable issues involving race, religions, history.

Sooner or later those transform into wars, inevitably. If by some miracle you could get all nations to agree not to arm, that would work, but of course it's unrealistic. As soon as there is 1 that don't agree (or worse, agree but arm secretely) everybody needs to arm as well.

Because we have a lot of resources, I want to keep the amount of resources that I have or increase it, and they want the same for themselves

Alternatively: the heretics will never learn and sully this world, let us convert them at the point of the sword!

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