Do humans have an innate affinity for war?

Question

What do you think? Thank you!

Answer 1

No.

Most humans who have lived haven't caused or sought war.

Most humans hate war.

Answer 2

No!

We're just too stupid to get along.

Answer 3

it's not that we like war, it's that we (as individuals and groups) want the most power possible to increase income and have greater freedom.

Answer 4

Because all life forms seek to gain in one way or another.Wether it be food, being happy,wealth, growth or to eliminate a possible opponent.And in humans the need for gain often manifest in wars.But even in the animal kingdom u c violence form the ants on the ground to the birds in the air,and the fish in the sea.There will never be pure peace on this planet.For the evolution of earth and all its inhabitants was pathed in blood.Sad but true.

Answer 5

Yes.

It has been observed in the famous chimpanzee work of Jane Goodall that chimpanzees (which we are 98 percent related to) war for no reason at all.  She observed large groups of chimps from one area move into another area not always next to their own area and kill the other primates living there.  They killed Males, Females and babies.  After which they would return to their own area and that would be that.  Those chimpanzees never even expanded their own territory into those areas.  There is references to this in her literature if your interested in reading about it.

If you look at some of these primate studies you will find that we have a propensity for war.  War for the sake of war.

Answer 6

I think it's a gene the Creator put in our DNA string to limit overpopulation.  Could you just imagine what the population of the planet Earth would be today if it weren't for wars?

Answer 7

We have an inherent need to defend ourselves, our loved ones and our territory, if you will, just like most other mammals.  War is simply a means by which we 'defend' ourselves, often to the point of kicking our foe when he's down.

Answer 8

This is where humans have taken the innate and have expanded upon that.  Yes, territory and competition for resources are innate but war can also be unique to humans as it has become an art.  Napoleon is a good example of how war can be caused by the skill of one person.  Also, groups can be like an individual with mental disorders.  WW2 is an example. Germany had a culture of child abuse that help lead to the situation and Japan was paranoid that the US was going to try to "take" them.

Answer 9

Yes, since the human population surged to appx. 100 Million, 5,000 years ago, I read that somewhere on the earth there has been a war taking place, continuously, with the exception of 32 years...

I'd say, that human agression, and especially testosterone intensity, will never go away. We can play sports for only do long, then we usually resort to outright killing!

Answer 10

Not war as such, but the territory we protect as our own, and who we consider part of our tribe, has grown over the years. So that battles become more organised. And the threats are generally peceived, rather than actual.

Chimpanzees are also warlike, and attack other nearby tribes pre-emptively. So do ants.

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Answer 11

There is absolutely no reason to assume it started 5000 years ago as is a common idea among anthropologists.  They blame it on farming which is silly if you know anything about the history of the plains tribes that occupied the prairies of the US.  They were in a constant state of warfare with each other.  Humans have a very high birthrate and that means that conflicts will need to be settled by aggressively attacking other groups since they aren't going to give up territory without a fight.  Humans have probably been war fighting for over a million years and that helps explains why we apparently evolved so quickly.