RE: War is nonsense and manipulation and there is no reason to fight?
March 30, 2019 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2019 at 1:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We call it war when 1,000 people are involved, but the only difference between war and duel is the number of people. The 'reasons for war" can be as simple as the reasons for a barfight.
Thing is, it's not actually some fully rational decision in either case, nor is it..in either case, an example of base savagery. Countries go to war for the same reason that I move my fenceline into what my neighbor thinks is his. It's in my interest to move my fenceline. It's in his interest to knock it down and move it back. Thankfully, we haven't started trading shots just yet.
-continuing along that line of thought
The reason that we haven't started trading shots, ultimately, is that it would be a poor use of our resources. Neither of us has 999 other lives to throw away. We're throwing away locust posts and galvanized wire - because that's what we both have alot of. I don't actually want the things in the space between where my fence may be and where I put it, I want them to go away. I want an empty space, a demilitarized zone, if you will, lol. The trees keep falling towards my property. They block my light. He sells firewood and raises cattle. He doesn't want the trees to go away because they give his cattle shade, and if they do go away he wants to sell them. Neither of us will or even can cut them down for free. Hundreds (if not thousands) of labor and fuel hours at stake. There is no middle ground between his interests and mine. I don't even need his waste, and he has no use for mine. If we were countries instead of individual property owners this would be the drumbeat to war.
Thing is, it's not actually some fully rational decision in either case, nor is it..in either case, an example of base savagery. Countries go to war for the same reason that I move my fenceline into what my neighbor thinks is his. It's in my interest to move my fenceline. It's in his interest to knock it down and move it back. Thankfully, we haven't started trading shots just yet.
-continuing along that line of thought
The reason that we haven't started trading shots, ultimately, is that it would be a poor use of our resources. Neither of us has 999 other lives to throw away. We're throwing away locust posts and galvanized wire - because that's what we both have alot of. I don't actually want the things in the space between where my fence may be and where I put it, I want them to go away. I want an empty space, a demilitarized zone, if you will, lol. The trees keep falling towards my property. They block my light. He sells firewood and raises cattle. He doesn't want the trees to go away because they give his cattle shade, and if they do go away he wants to sell them. Neither of us will or even can cut them down for free. Hundreds (if not thousands) of labor and fuel hours at stake. There is no middle ground between his interests and mine. I don't even need his waste, and he has no use for mine. If we were countries instead of individual property owners this would be the drumbeat to war.
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