At any one time there are around 100 conflicts occuring somewhere on earth. From the current favourite in Iraq (whose public interest wanes by the day), to guerillas in Darfur, to Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the human race wars with itself.
In our personal lives, we are, if we're unlucky, invloved in violence ourselves. Visit ANY city late on a weekend night around the time when the bars close (a practice that seems to be being combated by never closing - "if we can't stop them fighting when it's kicking out time...then we'll just not kick them out full stop.") and you'll witness violence at the extreme as young men attempt to beat the shit out of one another, fully tanked up on booze.
People, young men especially, but with an increasing participation, young girls, are beating one another to death. With knives and clubs, guns and force of numbers, they attack unsuspecting would be victims. As I write, someone, somewhereis being beaten do death. Another, shot...yet another strangled...this is unremitting.
Conlict and war is simply a disagreement extrapolated to the nth degree - as far as it can go, actually. It can best be described at a fundamental level:
Put two men in a room, leave then there for an interminable length of time and violence will occur. It will almost certainly arise out of something so insignificant as to be laughable but will result in a violent act.
Extrapolte this to a global scale and you have war.
Yet, it's not ALL bad. War is good for the economy (of the stronger protaganist). Weapons have to be manufactured and supplied; uniforms made, and the biggest one, save the ordnance, fuel for the war machine. Certain parties make big from war. Cynical maybe - plain facts often are.
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