War is a legitimate enterprise in the twenty-first century.

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Albert Alvarado                                                                                

ToK 6th period

November 22, 2005

                        

        War in the twenty-first century is a legitimate enterprise that will continue until civilized mammals are extinct. From the first time history was recorded, war has been apart of this world. Since the first century to the twenty-first century war continues to be an integral part of advancement in human civilization, part of human nature to find a way to settle problems, a way for nations and cultures to be created, a method to convert people to a different religion, and a way for the nations of the world to form alliances. These reasons are why war is an integral or essential part of humans and will always be here. War is unavoidable and must occur in order for some sort of equilibrium to exist in the world.

        History is the recorded events of the precedent events to a war and the actual war itself. History helps man see how certain events in time occurred and help man do better in the future, war is fought because of certain problems so through seeing what was accomplished by it man decides that war is effective. History is a element that great military powers have utilized to win battles as is said by a very famous ruler “History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall."- Adolph Hitler. History teaches people that war is just a thing we must live with because their will always be someone who will look at past wars and think he can make the perfect army and control the world just as Hitler thought.

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        Humans are born knowing violence, from babies, there is something about humans, an instinct that makes man violent when something he doesn’t like or agree with occurs. Sigmund Freud’s work speaks of human instincts and how humans can be viewed as nothing more than civilized animals, he says “conflicts of interest are resolved, in principle, by the recourse to violence. It is the same in the animal kingdom…”. War is fought because of human instinct most of the time. Greed is a huge component that leads to anger which in turn leads to the instinctive violence man is born with. ...

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