Capt. Haddock
Evil Mouse
Ok, various different threads concerning the causes of conflict have got me thinking.
For all the talk of religious and cultural conflicts, I am of the belief that humans are fundamentally greedy creatures. I think we fight over stuff: land, oil, money, gold, diamonds, cattle, water, etc. Cultural and religious differences are only the backdrop: the excuses we make to legitimise our violence or the criteria we use to distinguish friend from foe.
But this leads me to a question:
If, hypothetically, we lived in a world where there were no shortages, a world of unlimited abundance where all we could possibly need or want was there for the taking, with little or no effort: would there still be wars?
What would people fight about?
For all the talk of religious and cultural conflicts, I am of the belief that humans are fundamentally greedy creatures. I think we fight over stuff: land, oil, money, gold, diamonds, cattle, water, etc. Cultural and religious differences are only the backdrop: the excuses we make to legitimise our violence or the criteria we use to distinguish friend from foe.
But this leads me to a question:
If, hypothetically, we lived in a world where there were no shortages, a world of unlimited abundance where all we could possibly need or want was there for the taking, with little or no effort: would there still be wars?
What would people fight about?