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If we want to know why people wage war, why work in generalities (i.e. 'human nature')?
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Because we already know why people wage war, and its always for the same reasons. Reasons become patterns become human nature. People like roachboy can turn those patterns into a form of literary masturbation, but they are still just patterns. Many people in this thread have already told you why people wage war. Its not a trick question.
The rhetorical question I have is what is the fascination with war and violence? Why do we gawk at traffic accidents? Why is it on the front page of the newspaper each day? We have historical documentation of formal acts of warfare going back thousands of years, sometimes in the most minute and dedicated detail. There are forms of weaponry of the most elaborate design and craftsmanship. Think about the sick mind that devised the guillotine. Why don't people chronicle acts of peace? Was there ever a Pelopennesian Peace? The Peace of 1312? World Peace II? The Hundred Years' Peace? The Punic Peace?