War Is NOT In Our Nature

But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.'"

GA Douglas MacArthur

But is that actually the case?

Is it in our nature to go to war? Should we just accept the fact that humans have this innate tendency and are hardwired to kill members of other groups?

No, says R. Brian Ferguson, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. There is no scientific proof that we have an inherent propensity to take up arms and collectively kill.

In a study published in Scientific American, Ferguson argues that war may not be in our nature at all. People might fight and sometimes kill for personal reasons, but homicide, he argues, is not war.

"There is definitely controversy in the field when it comes to this question," says Ferguson, who studies human nature, war and peace. "But it is the overall circumstances that we live in that creates the impulse to go or not go to war."

In his study, "War May Not Be in Our Nature After All. Why We Fight", Ferguson reached back thousands of years to look at the historical roots of warfare to shed light on whether humans have always made war or if armed conflict has only emerged as changing social conditions provided the motivation and organization to collectively kill.

You can read the rest @
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-scientific-proof-war-ingrained-human.html

So what's OUR excuse? Why is the US always at war?

I say it's because of the greed of the rich, and MG Smedley Butler agreed with me in his famous book War Is A Racket:

War is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

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Here is my suggestion - prosecute US warmongers, generals, and admirals and the members of AIPAC using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Stop the slow death of our country via wasteful war spending, and at the same time bring peace to the world.

For a long time we have been proving that we cannot kill our way to general prosperity, and it's time to admit that and rid ourselves of the vile people who send our sons and daughters to get maimed or killed for the sole benefit of the rich.