Recruiting children as soldiers, raping women as a tactic and ethic cleansing are now used routinely. Rather than warfare becoming less of an issue, it is both growing in frequency and becoming more barbaric.
Well, this is spectacularly false.
Recruiting children as soldiers, raping women as a tactic, and ethnic cleansing have always been used routinely. Grow up.
If anything, we live in an unparalleled age of peace. When's the last time a significant war between two standing armies happened? The American-Iraqi wars, the Iran-Iraq war. And two of those wars were extremely asymmetric.
We are living in an age when classic warfare has pretty much disappeared and we're left only with massacres. But massacres have always occured throughout human history so they are nothing special. Their exposure doesn't represent an evolution of warfare, it represents a disappearance of warfare.
Furthermore,
There is a well-known correlation between the amount of armaments a country possess and the frequency that it engages in conflict. Owning weapons causes wars.
is just wrong. Hitler started WW2 when Germany was at its weakest, militarily. And the strongest economically.
There is some justification for your economic thesis because the outbreaks of war coincide with economic peaks. Nations in the middle of economic depressions do not start wars.
However, the real explanation for this phenomenon is very simple and it is not economic but psychological. It is the homeostasis of suffering. People like having a steady, predictable, amount of suffering in their lives, whether it's depressions or wars. When people aren't suffering, they become anxious as they worry about when suffering will start again.
And happily for us, this theory of suffering also explains why we've ceased liking war. Because of enormous psychological improvements in the Western world. Improvements which will only spread and further reduce the scope of war.
Insulting people is rude, counterproductive and shows the that the person doing it has weak arguments which they try to disguise by use of ad hominem remarks.
I noticed this trend in your recent remarks to Jerome and now you seem to be applying them to me as well. If you wish to have anyone consider your opinions seriously you need to examine your tone.
As to the point that other societies may have waged wars over nothing even though they weren't capitalistic that is probably true, but somewhat besides the point.
We currently live in a world where the biggest powers are capitalistic and if they do indeed fight wars because of the inherent dynamics of their system then this is worth investigating. That this may not be unique is irrelevant. Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
But that's nothing compared to your assumption of intellectual relativism.
As if facts and truth were matters of "opinion". As if I should care whether people like me because it will change how authentic are my facts and how powerful are my arguments.
Intellectual relativism is the defense of the brain damaged, literally. It is the worldview of people who cannot comprehend the world in a systematic manner and are reduced to having multiple contradictory "opinions" about it.
I already knew your facts were wrong and your arguments were weak. Now I know enough to dismiss you entirely.
Go Away.
