Peace on Earth

[holly_evolving]

As long as there is Man (meaning the human race) there will be war. Mankind as an entity is incapable of peaceful existence. This does not mean that we must stop striving for peace, only that we must not act surprised when we fail. This does not make mankind evil. Killing for pleasure is not a sport reserved for humans; cats and weasels revel in the blood of their victims even when their hunger is sated. We are animals--violent, visceral animals. To pretend otherwise is to be blind to our own desires--and to continually be the unsuspecting victims of them, instead of their masters.

Platypus

Comments

Re: Pleasure?

[grumpymonkey.livejournal.com]

Tangentally (that a word?) to that, I have another thought. War is not only inevitable and a purely human creation, but it is also necessary. War is like natural selection finding another way for our population to be curbed. Disease? It may be good for some animals, but we breed quicker and overcome them too fast. Starvation? There is some, but we have circumvented the need to be near resources with food distribution networks. Natural predators? Well,unless you count ourselves, we don't have any.

So... support a soldier, it's int he best interests of the species that we kill each other off occasionally.

I love being an optimist.

Re: Pleasure?

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I agree with you on war specifically being the necessary scourge of humanity, but we do need one, and it serves. As for disease, it is killing us effectively...it's just man-made disease at this point. Chemical dependencies are effective tools for getting people to repeatedly poison themselves until death; they're just not usually efficient or simple means. I'm not sure that war has a higher death rate than poisoning (especially overdose/other drug complications--don't forget alcohol and nicotine!) but the large chucks it deals in as opposed to the slow and steady process of chemical certainly make it seem that way.

Anyone have stats handy?