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Offline Outonowhere

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Re: "World Wars"...etc. ~ *split topic*
« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2013, 06:11:22 AM »
business only leads to war when governments are in charge, and that's what I got the problem with

UNLESS... your business is war.  And when there is a revolving door between high level positions in government and high level positions in business, they are one and the same.

War is not the disease but a symptom.  Anger, Hatred, Greed and Lust are the base causes and they are human nature.  To completely end war would require the complete world population to rise above such things.

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Re: "World Wars"...etc. ~ *split topic*
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2013, 06:30:01 PM »
business only leads to war when governments are in charge, and that's what I got the problem with
War is not the disease but a symptom.  Anger, Hatred, Greed and Lust are the base causes and they are human nature.  To completely end war would require the complete world population to rise above such things.

Star Wars references aside what you said here is very important, but I'd like to take it a step further for your consideration. Anger, hate, greed and so on; are they really human nature? The easy answer is sure. Now think for a minute do you want war? Do you want to be angry and hate anyone? If someone's sick in the head they may say yes. The point is it's not our nature.

At your worst moments where you catch yourself being lustful, greedy, or jealous do you fight that or do you just think "that's me." None of us would introduce ourselves to someone as a angry, greedy, jealous, bastards would we? There's an outside influence that affects us internally and causes those things. Figuring that part out is priceless.