>Why do we spend so many trillions of dollars in wars and pointless witch-hunts.. Because there exist many bad people in this world who want society to control

>Why do we spend so many trillions of dollars in wars and pointless witch-hunts.. Because there exist many bad people in this world who want society to control other people more than the absolute minimum needed for society to function. If you phrased the question differently and picked a different issue you'd find many here in support of it. All the other parties (cops, politicians, etc) are just making a buck while helping implement the utopia the first group wants.