Theme – A World Without War?

Q. Do you think it will ever be possible for humankind to exist without war?

A. In short, no.

To expound upon this, it is an aspect of human nature that is compounded by the nature of our world. How is that? Quite simple. For one, humans started out in survival situation. That, coupled with instinct, was the start of humanity’s drive to survive and strike out against threats to that survival.

This could have been alleviated if this was a paradise world where all resources were equally spread across the surface and all cultures developed similarly and at the same pace. This too didn’t happen, which creates discrepancies in what one community/culture has when contrasted with another.

This is what started trade. And is what started wars to seize resources and baubles which are desired by the aggressors. From that point, there was no turning back. It has escalated to the current day where humans continue to battle for this, that or the other thing, as well as ideologies that have developed from past conflicts.

Global peace would have been a fluke under these conditions, given the base nature of humanity. This is not to say that we’re hopeless. We’ve gotten a bit better about things, though recent events have taken us back a few steps in my opinion. But global peace remains a future possibility. It is just a matter of when and how.