Between multiple opposed parties attempting to resolve conflict, war is a meta-mechanism that solves the decision making problem vacuously, by removing all but

Between multiple opposed parties attempting to resolve conflict, war is a meta-mechanism that solves the decision making problem vacuously, by removing all but one participant. Until a permanently disabling threshold other than death is found [0], there will exist a price at which it is profitable to undermine any abstraction layer of polite competition. Automated militaries lower the price point at which death, whose limit is genocide, is an economic alternative. [0] Perhaps through cryptographically one-way neurolinguistic re-programming. Even Japan's conditioning by the American occupation (one of the most brutal cultural reorganizes absent enforced diaspora) seems to be waning after 70 years.