The fallacy of pre-emptive violence
Strike the Root
by Daniel Lakemacher
07/08/09
Do people go to war because it is part of human nature? If so, then we might consider it impossible to do away with war. But there is no evidence, in biology, or psychology, or anthropology, of a natural instinct for war. If that were so, we would find a spontaneous rush to war by masses of people. What we find is something very different: we find that governments must make enormous efforts to mobilize populations for war. They must entice young people with promises of money, land, education, skills. Immigrants are lured with promises of green cards and citizenship. And if those enticements don’t work, government must coerce. It must conscript young people, force them into military service, threaten them with prison if they do not comply...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/lakemacher/lakemacher1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pre-emptive
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+service
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Lakemacher
by Daniel Lakemacher
07/08/09
Do people go to war because it is part of human nature? If so, then we might consider it impossible to do away with war. But there is no evidence, in biology, or psychology, or anthropology, of a natural instinct for war. If that were so, we would find a spontaneous rush to war by masses of people. What we find is something very different: we find that governments must make enormous efforts to mobilize populations for war. They must entice young people with promises of money, land, education, skills. Immigrants are lured with promises of green cards and citizenship. And if those enticements don’t work, government must coerce. It must conscript young people, force them into military service, threaten them with prison if they do not comply...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/lakemacher/lakemacher1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pre-emptive
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+service
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Lakemacher
rudkla - 9. Jul, 11:22
