Why we as humans resolve our problems in war, don't we as humans teach our childrens not to fight?

Question

War versus teaching

Answer 1

Humans like most animals, are territorial. We teach our children not to fight one another, but we do teach them to fend for themselves well when confronted by bullies. The bullies are considered outsiders, & so are other nice kids in your neighborhood. that's our difference with animals, we have our mind to distinguish who are the threaths & those who mean no harm.
War was devised when the level of risk is at it's highest. unfortunately, that's when human reasoning is at it's lowest.

Answer 2

I grew up the victim of schoolyard bullies. I don't believe anyone teaches their children not to fight. Some parents will tell them to behave, but ask a 5 year old or a 12 year old what that means, and most will give an example of things that keep their parents quiet. They really need specific instructions.
We also need to teach co operation. The only kids who get that lesson are the one in sports and cheerlearleading, but you have to compete to get there.
People who know how to work together don't feel the need to overturn the system to get what they want.

Answer 3

Well think of it this way when you fight with a brother or sister its a little thing but it matters to you and to him or her. Now when you take that idea and put it into the big picture its the same thing. When you fight with your brother or sister family or freinds which we all do its like a little tiny war. People with two opposing ideas want there way and that just how it is. Not everyone gets their way and that's how wars begin. Now on the stance of teaching our children not to fight, when you yell or scream your fighting with them. Its just human nature, and one person can screw a perfectly good thing up.

Answer 4

This is such a good question that it deserves a total answer. Buy, borrow,or print a volume titled Oahspe which is automatically written and the most astonishing book in print in this or the previous century. Along with answers you'll uncover deliberate plots toward failures for examples Hopi's blood in ancestry made highly bred vegetarian peaceful people; eras ago, but mischievous false gods thru breeding with cannibles created bloodlines where people today love and pursue war.Baugh ghan ghad feast still still practiced in churches today..once ax murdering was accepted and common by warriors; today not so, but symbolizesd in eucharist and observed by good folks who haven't the slightest inkling what's being celebrated. In other words heredity is one small part of this.

Answer 5

It's really a question of social evolution. We were once upon a time monkeys and have evolved into what we are now. We have changed phisically and we have also changed in the way we interact as individuals and as a group and are still changing. Hopefully we will one day resolve the problems that lead us to war.

Answer 6

So... What you're saying is, start a war on war?

In a philisophical way, teaching is what starts war in the first place... People defend that in which they beleive (or were taught to beleive). People also try to push their beleifs (what they were taught), on others...

So, in a way... Teaching in itself is what causes war in the first place.

War, as bad as it might seem to say, is very healthy to society as a whole, but you must understand the entire reasoning behind that before you argue against it.

What we should focus on, instead of war itself, is the things that we decide to fight for, or against. I'm not sure where you're from, but the people in America really need to start making better decisions on whom we allow to judge what we go to war for. Out of my entire Sociology class this year, 2 out of about 45 went out to vote, and 1 out of those 2, probably did their research on whom they were voting for.

So, taking my class as a subject group, 1 out of 45 people understands what they voted for, and 44 did not make an educated choice on what they stand for. <- THAT is the problem.

Answer 7

While we do teach our children not to fight, we just do it in the moral science way.. & obviously it does not work.

Instead we "teach" our children even without realising it, the "us vs them" thing. Just see this logical progression embedded in our institutions
Human-Family-Home-Extended Family-Tribe-Region-State-Country-Religion etc.

Each subculture is at loggerheads with each other, so war is not surprising when we repose unlimited destructive power in institutions (such as governments) that claim to represent the individual - but never do.

Answer 8

Good thought, I never thought of that before. I don't know why we as humans choose to fight when we are teaching our children fighting is bad. I guess we do it to try and take charge, if the enemy won't speak.

Answer 9

Humans, especially males, have a lot of growing up to do. Until they attain a certain level of maturity, they will continue to follow the childish habit of fighting over everything, even as they tell their children not to fight, not realizing that children learn most from examples.
How many parents have you seen slap their kids for playing rough?

Answer 10

Some humans do resolve their problems through war, which is wrong, as it causes a lot of suffering, and the point which you raise, they are hypocrites.