Alright, time to address this human nature stuff.
Either a given trait can be explained by innate genetic traits or it's tabula rasa. 'Human nature' is a simplistic and outdated term that's virtually meaningless because of it's varied and vague meaning. One may have a genetic predisposition to violence, or has acquired the concept of war from their environment. To blame 'human nature', as is pointed out by roach above, is to blame
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Originally Posted by Roachboy
...an arbitrary collection of actions which are then linked back to an even more arbitrary set of subjective dispositions.
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Vague language does this thread, and by extension hope of a solution or progress in the venture of ending war, a disservice. Can we move away from the vague and antiquated, for the benefit of the thread topic? If you'd like to suggest that a genetic or environmentally acquired predisposition for violence (coupled with any number of things such as greed or selfishness) spread across certain members of a given society can and will manifest themselves in violent behavior and, when coupled with a type of thought like groupthink, the inevitable conclusion on a mass scale is war, then go ahead and we can debate it on it's academic merits. I welcome that type of debate here, as that can reach a solution. Blaming human nature is tantamount to using Newtonian physics to examine wave functions on the subatomic level or using a rams horn to play a trumpet concerto. We have the necessary tools to really look into this.