(April 24, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ok, before anyone comments, please don't respond with "it's complicated", yes our species is complicated. But the core reason is not complicated, we simply as humans concoct elaborate schemes and call theme things like religion, political parties, and economic views. Yes those things do get complicated, but the goal as to why we invent those things isn't. We do that to get at resources and to create social order so we can have a sense of control over our environment, even when it comes at the expense to harming others.
Shakespeare saw the folly of human conceit in MacBeth Act 5 scene 5 "flurry of activity signifying nothing". Damn good guess even with not having the modern scientific knowledge of knowing how finite we are in cosmic time. Sagan however did.
War happens for many reasons, but the goal is the same, control over our environments. Ideas are the excuses we make and those excuses do get complicated. It isn't that you can get rid of disagreements or differences, but we can work to a less violent world and make diplomacy more of a priority the more humans accept this.
Two things: War is aimed more at resources than at any of the other things mentioned. And the quote is 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'.
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
