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Originally Posted by filtherton
Yes, and perhaps it would imply that scarce resources, i.e. economic issues, are the driving force for humanity.
It makes sense; violence rarely occurs for its own sake. It happens because somebody wants what somebody else has.
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Bingo we have a winner. Violence in itself is never a driving force or a reason for anything. You have to look deeper, for the reasons behind things. The driving force for humanity is survival.
Just because something leads to violence, doesn't make violence the driving force or reason behind the action itself. Nobody or nothing in the universe as we know it voluntarily chooses to do something violent just for the sake of violence in my opinion.
While I don't know what everything is thinking it's not often I see a shark just attack a fish for example, kill it and leave it there for the sake of violence. As humans we can deduce sharks attack other living things for a source of food. Just as every other intelligent life form is violent for some underlying reason. Any intelligent life form chooses to do something based on instinct or choice. Using logic and reasoning we can come to the conclusion, this instinct perpetuating violence furthers there ability to survive. In the latter, there are many other vast reasons why, but they too all have reasons behind them.Likewise, psychopaths don't kill people or hurt people randomly for the sake of hurting people randomly there is a reason behind it, they choose to do so for whatever agenda they have.
Violence in itself doesn't drive it is simply a vehichle used for other purposes. Much like a knife, the knife doesn't propel itself without something acting upon it. I haven't heard the old, "my knife is the thing that ended his life I may have thrust it into his chest, but i'm innocent" argument hold up in court. So yes violence is an effective tool for achieving ones desires but in no way is it the driving force.