A semi-heated discussion with a housemate got me thinking the other day. By being a pro-peace person I never, really never, agree to the concept of going to war just like most of the citizen of the world.  But this conversation of ours, together with an article I came across in the Economist the other day, really raised me a question: Will we, the humanity and its being, survive without war?

The article posted a theory that Darwinism is coming into popularity once again, ‘the strongest will survive’ ideology that explains the ways of the nature and how lives evolve. Will this apply to the concept of war as well? Take Hitler for example, without the war against him, who knows what the face of the world today will be, or how even more badly things will turn out.

This might seem to be a very odd way of posting a question. But to think about it, eventhough we are not a carnivore, some of us do kill others for certain reasons, although mostly stupid ones. And this goes back a long way to the origin of man and our history. Everyone knows of more than a couple honoured fighters like Julias Ceasar, Genghis Khan and the likes. We even looked up to these man even to this day despite the fact that they have killed more than thousands of people. Why?

What I'm trying to suggest is not for us to justify war, and in my opinion it can and never will be justified. but will it kill us all just to live in peace? In the old days, the reason for war was to expand territories, gain more commodities and wealth through what existed on the land and underneath. To this day, what was more to Bush's reason to be at war with iraq other than to gain benefits from its oil resources and from weaponry business.