Dear Aristo, This is a very interesting and perplexing issue, one that will no doubt continue to plague humanity for some time to come.
One of the most interesting insights comes from Jane Goodall's work with the chimpanzees. She observed that chimpanzees not only fought on an individual basis but whole tribes of chimpanzees would go about decimating other tribes, then making off with their females. I think human beings are at the very base of our being very animalistic with a thin veneer of civilisation. As animals, we are territorial and on a constant quest to safe-guard our resources. When you boil down all the religious wars, the cultural wars, the economic wars, it is all about safeguarding what we want to preserve. Elisabeth ------------------------------- --- Aristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure whether this has been debated on > Goanet before (no search > results on the archives showed), but I am aware that > this is an already > thoroughly debated topic in academic circles (as are > most other topics on > goanet). However, I would like to know goanetters > point of view of the > topic. > > I would like to know what YOU feel is the PRIMARY > root-cause of War, Confict > and Violence in contemporary society, and how is it > in contrast with > historical wars. Is it due to: > 1) Fundamentalism & Bigotry (Religious, Cultural, > Racial, Ideological, etc) > 2) Greed (for Wealth, Power & Authoritarianism, > Glory) that is sometimes > cleverly disguised as reason # 1 > 3) Innate violent nature of humans, more often of > men. > 4) Other > > Regards, > Aristo. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
