Is war the worst thing humans could come up with? >millions

covetousness

>>2777196
>a thing that's invented
>not a reaction to a chemical reaction in the brain

>>2777196
This is, as they say, a 'r*ddit' post m'lad.

>>2777196
War's older than Humans.

>>2777267
/thread

This is why /his/ was always such a shitty idea for a board.

>>2777196
it has the evolutionary advantage of destroying weaker forms of society, culture, and race. We like having a "tribe" and defeating enemy tribes

Wars weren't as disastrous,global or "total" before the Seven Years War.

Many people like to hammer on about the story of the Iliad being a proto war-drama and showing how disastrous war is, but in reality it was a glorified pirate raid and Homer was used that myth to show how glorious fighting is. He also gives us clear motivations for that war happening (theft of Helen) and make it an honour thing.

Compare that with WWI, which most people fighting it had no idea why the war had started in the first place.

>>2777288
you know even chimps can do genocide. they're just not organized enough to do it on the same scale as us.

>>2777299

Human diplomacy, bureaucracy, and geopolitics is why wars got larger and larger in the West. Not just because "y had more territory and food than x", had it been just those same motivations as that of the chimps, wars would have remained at the most elementary small scale tribal level.

>>2777314
wars got larger because groups that (mostly) don't war internally got larger. that's all there is to it.

>>2777196
War is just the rational way to resolve a conflict, if you kill your enemy then the conflict ends pretty simple logic right there. Humans are anything but peaceful creatures, it our inherent empathy that stops all of us from just going out in the streets and stabbing random people up for fun and empathy makes us resist war until it becomes necessary. Back in our tribal days humans rampantly gored the living shit out of their enemy tribes without a single crap given at all, torturing outsiders was the human way of life even if said outsiders could help you it was more fun to torture them and rape their people.

Even when humans became civilized this instinct to torture shit outside of their tribe continued hence human slavery surviving for so long as slavery was just an excuse for humans to torture outsiders for fun.