IS "WAR" Primitive?

Question

It`s quite obvious we human beings are a form of animal species. We not only posses the concious thinking mind we are also hard wired with emotions and instincts. If two man stare into eachothers eyes with discontent, the humans bodlily posture resembles that of Mad dogs squaring off. Dogs growl and show their fangs - humans lips tighten, forehead scrunches, and fist clinch. In light of these animal instincts we posses we have used our concious thinking minds to overcome these animal behaviors in some respects. I.E. We no longer communicate through growls and grunts we currently use language, computers, imagery etc...etc..
Are we not as primitive as the cro-magnum man when it comes to the question of war. We no longer bludgeon eachother with clubs to death, now we use sophicated weaponry that has the potential to wipe out swaths of people. There is really no difference. We like the Neanderthal rely on our animal instincts (not our thinking brains) to resolve disputes. War is primitve

Answer 1

Just like chimps fighting over territory. The more overpopulated we get, the more wars there will be. As long as we, as a race, continue to obey the breeding instinct without question. How can we even claim to be anymore than animals.

Answer 2

The difference today is that all of this can be done without anger, from a distance, never seeing the harm done.

The dispassionate form of warfare that is now available is truly frightening. It makes the killing a lot easier and more nebulous. When soldiers in WWI fixed bayonets and killed, they did so up close and personal. Hand to hand combat became less the norm in WWII and now it is even a smaller part of the killing.

War is a primitive way to settle a dispute (and usually an ineffective and costly way) but warfare is getting ever more complex and advanced.

Peace

Answer 3

Strange that history tells us that so-called "primitive" societies were much more peaceful than those of the Classical, Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern and now post-postmodern societies.
And we're still "biological" 'primitive' - there's been very little evolutionary difference in our species since the dawn of cro-magnon.