For any reasonable person it has to be a great disappointment that nations far too often decide to resolve their differences through warfare. So too, many human beings, are prone to taking the law into their own hands, or pretty much deciding that they desire to fight someone over all sorts of things, and have been doing so for generations upon generations. In short, nations still go to war all of the time, and people still fight each other, all of the time, as well.
When we look at the animal kingdom, we recognize that though some of the fighting is ritualistic, most of the fighting so initiated is primarily done so for purposes of getting food, or for mating, or for status, or for territory. So then, when we look at nations that fight one another, they primarily do so on a fundamental level, to control or to takeover territory as well as obtain valued resources. Additionally, for those humans that fight, it is commonly done so for respect or status within their domain, or to gain something of value from someone else. In other words, a lot of the reasons why nations and humans fight have a lot in common with the reasons that animals fight. That is to say, we so find that pretty much that the purpose of fighting is to gain something of value or worth, at the expressed expense of the other.
If humankind or nations do actually desire to evolve and to thus become civilized in the true meaning of that word, then humankind and nations need to change their thinking, because the progress so needed to resolve our differences through something other than constantly fighting is frustratingly slow. The fact that in today’s world, that humankind has so much knowledge about so many different things, but still insists upon primarily resolving its differences through fight, is absolutely pathetic, which reflects that humans are far more dim-witted than most people recognize.
All of those that believe that we are special creations of God, have got to be incredibly disappointed that human beings spend such an inordinate amount of time, fighting one another, all done, pretty much at the same level, that animals do. This would presuppose that human beings aren’t actually all that different than animals, and perhaps reflects that human beings did indeed evolve from apes.
For those, that understand, that each one of us has been gifted with free will and must therefore fairly face the consequences of our actions; in addition to understanding that the mind that we have can thus be utilized either for good or for bad, need then to clearly demonstrate the discipline and the wisdom to do the right thing, consistently. This means, understanding, that the change that we need to see, in order to cut down significantly upon all of the warfare and fighting so occurring, must come forth from our own actions, so directed by our own thoughts, in unity. It is needful to understand that the pathway to advancement of our species, is not going to successfully come through warfare and fighting, but remains as it always has been, through fairness, justice, teamwork, forgiveness, and love, actualized.