After 5000 years of civilization, why is war the preferred way to solve problems

Question

And it does not seem to be getting better. See Iran vs Israel, Iran vs US, N Korea vs US, Syria vs US, Israel vs the world, India vs Pakistan, etc etc.

Answer 1

Because of the almighty dollar, land , oil select few become extremely wealthy from war, like George W. Bush.

Answer 2

Because we descended from normal chimps. They actually do military style patrols and the leading cause of death is being murdered by another chimp for being in the wrong territory (sound familiar). I really, really, really, really, really,really wish we descended from the Bonobo's.

Answer 3

big and very profitable business plain and simple.

the banking cartels make money on both sides.

Answer 4

Civilization tends to lapse into a degraded state, that is usually represented by the leadership that exhibits trouble interpreting the Laws as written.

As far as the USA, it is fortunate that we had founding fathers who recognized the realities associated with individual rights--they are protections against the degredation of civiliation.

Great question.

Answer 5

Its all because of religion... Period..

Governments are formed with the principles of religion as a back bone...  even Democracy.......

Answer 6

Because that seems to be the only thing people understand, which is force.

Answer 7

Ultimately all authority rests on the ability to enforce it's decisons.

I live in peaceful community under the rule of law. I do not feel the need to use violence nor do I fear that it is likely to be used against me because if I have a dispute I can go to court.

If my neighbor and I have a property dispute we can take it to court and have it decided. If the loser of this lawsuit refuses to abide by the courts decison, the court can send the Sheriff to enforce it's will.

When there is no higher authority to appeal to, and a compromise is not possible, people will resort to violence. Tales of the Wild West are an excellent example of this.

Nations have no higher authority to settle their desputes.

Some of you are going to say "United Nations",but I ask you do they have the means to enforce their decisions...

War will only end once all of Mankind is under one government,,,

Sadly the bloodshed that would be required to establish it is unthinkable.

Just imagine our future as Nuclear Weapons Technology spreads.

If a nation is 50 years behind the United States in weapons technology there would already have a H- Bomb.

Answer 8

War has always been a popular solution to regional conflicts.

History is full of them, and they come in many sizes.

Answer 9

mummies are resurrected and they are war hungry?

Answer 10

Because it works, if you do it right.

You see, if we were to do it with compromise, that would mean we have to give something up.

But if we do it with war, we can keep all we have and take what they have as well.  And we create jobs when those jobs are vacated by former employees and now current soldiers are sent off to war.  And many of them won't be coming back, so that's just fewer mouths to feed.

And we create even more jobs as we mobilize our economic base to start building all those weapons so that we can kill the enemy.

And finally, we can talk about how much God loves us and how He'll back us no matter what we do.  And doesn't that make you feel better?  Kind of like a warm blanket that we can wrap ourselves up in and cover our heads with when the government scares us with phantom ghosts of evil with names like Iraq and North Korea and so on.

Besides, its what makes us human.  No other species seems so intent on destroying itself.  So really, this want to destroy ourselves is what makes us human...