party_pants said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

War is and always has been one of the most monumental and consequential endeavours we as a species have ever engaged in. So many resources, so many lives, so many nations, so many ideologies. It appeals to the basest of human instincts, greed, ignorance, prejudice, violence and revenge and is an anathema to those qualities exhibited by the best of us. It seems that every few generations we need to understand anew what our grandparents learned and remind ourselves of all that is lost. An end to war must remains our collective goal and only when we engage with one another, empathise with one another, seek to understand one another, can we banish war to the past and grow as one humankind together in peace, in love. This remains our task, and I think we are up to it as long as we aim to do it together.

If it is a part of our basic human nature then it is always going to be with us. Especially as world population continues to grow and we increase competition over territory and resources. It’s the duality of human nature, we are both nasty brutes and noble savages at the same time.

We’ll have to try keep it all on the sporting field. :-)