Battle of Vukovar

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And what do you guys think, how are wars possible with respect to the Karl Popper's Principle of Rationality, one of the basic principles of modern social sciences? Karl Popper's Principle of Rationality states that the society as a whole will behave as if every individual in it were rational, because irrationalities of individuals cancel each other out. In other words, there can be no systematic irrationalities, where many individuals are irrational in the same way. But no rational person can think war is a good thing, right? So, how are wars possible?

Popper used the Principle of Rationality as a process, not as actuality (meaning that IF every individual in a society was rational, then the society as a whole would be rational). He even said that this principle  was false.

Wars are terrible things, but that doesn’t necessarily make them non-rational. For example, if all the people in my country will die because they lack a resource your country has, it is rational for my country to go to war to get it (assuming all other avenues have been exhausted). 

Boru