Can we understand this thing called war!?!? Why are so called intelligent people behaving like brainless idiots! All the vast intelligence that we posses, is thrown away when it comes to war. Do we actually need all of this oil, land, religion, and money to live ? Why do we kill off other people because they dont agree to what you see? Is there ever going to be a solution ?
2007-10-09 12:54:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is war because we are animals. Being at the top of the food chain means we have no natural predators except ourselves.
Ants wage war as do chimps. We are the same.
2007-10-09 13:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is war because people, despite our desire to say so, we are not all equal. We all have different levels of intellect. We have different strengths and different weaknesses. We all have different upbringings and are brainwashed (even though we don't realize it) in different ways.
That being said, we will disagree on things. Some of us react in violent ways because we either feel really strong about a cause OR we just can't help it. Others of us will blindly follow because we are not smart enough to know better OR we feel safe in numbers OR we also like violence.
Now that leaves quite a few of us who do not want to be part of the violence and can figure out how to solve the problem. The big part of this dilemma is that the people that are violent usually do not listen to the non-violent. So the violence happens anyway.
Sorry.
2007-10-09 20:09:12 · answer #2 · answered by Knight83 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your first poster got it right in that all creatures on earth have natural predators which by default means war is inevitable. That is ensure the survival of their kind.
All living creatures may not have the brains we have to stop war. But self preservation is an ingrained human trait.
Blessed are the peacemakers in deed.
2007-10-09 20:58:15 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People don't go to war because they disagree, nor do they require a "need" to justify battle. They go to war because they want what the others have, or want to protect what they have.
As long as life is unfair, and it always will be, war will exist.
No other species has solved it. No human culture has solved it. No religion has defeated it (even God couldn't avoid it in his perfect realm with Lucifer).
2007-10-09 21:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by freebird 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not till the last idiot realizes that killing people who disagree with you is not the way to find peace.
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-09 20:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best path to peace in the world is peace in your heart.
2007-10-09 20:56:53 · answer #6 · answered by rl153 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's your solution: Human extinction! ^_^
2007-10-10 00:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋