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. Leaders want to get more land or more resources so they invade a weaker country and that causes anger so in return many smaller nations join together because of anger, they overpower the one powerful nation and war ignites. If all countries were independent and didn’t help each other, one powerful country would consume most of the world if not all of it. Even if this scenario were to occur, over time different people with different believes would emerge and rebel against nation leaders and would come together because of anger and overthrow the leaders in civil wars. Again, there is no way to stop war, people have different thoughts.
The different cultures throughout the world come from interbreeding of different nations that combine to make a new nation. War is the reason why many diverse cultures exist. “War created our diverse world and will end it if it’s not stopped.”-Huriguyi Toriyama. Our world was made like it is now and our cultures are as advanced in technology because of our desire to have war. Cultures without war wouldn’t exist, our world is evolving into a more diversified place as time goes on, war continues to diversify the world faster than any other way . War destroys the old cultures so new ones can take their place.
Humans need war, they need war because from the beginning of written history, man has had different truths according to their cultures. War mostly comes about because of differences in religion. Religion is a major factor in war, the world will never reach a point where it has one religion. In the past when most of the world was Christian, people drifted away from that religion and more religions began to evolve, this example in history is great proof that one single truth or religion will never be reached. As long as there is religion, this world will never see peace, as Abu-al-Ala al-Marri said "The Jews, the Muslims and the Christians, They've all got it wrong. The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, the other with religion and no brain.". Peace is unreachable as long as man has no single truth.
Politics, it’s why nations are civilized, without politics, humans would follow the laws of nature and the word would have few nations ruled by the strong. "War is the continuation of politics by other means"-Karl Von Clausewitz. Politics were created so not only the strong would be powerful, so no totaliarism would exist in the world. With no War humans would be under the control of few strong nations that would make them do what the leaders wanted them to do, war is a means of taking power from the strong and spreading it out into a more civilized government. War is a way of balancing the world. No war means that only the powerful rule and no one questions their authority.
In conclusion, it is just human nature, war is a legitimate enterprise in the twenty-first century because without war the world cannot have balance of power, War is unavoidable and must occur in order for some sort of equilibrium to exist in the world. Through history we can see that with religion peace will never exist in this world and its impossible to remove all religion because more will eventually be created. War is here to stay and can not be taken away, its in our blood to fight for what we want or believe in.