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It should be a revelation because war is a civilizational concept - it's a form of organized violence, 'organization' being the keyword here. If you're living
by jariel 6y ago
It should be a revelation because war is a civilizational concept - it's a form of organized violence, 'organization' being the keyword here.
If you're living in scattered, small tribes, then at most you can get into small tribal scuffles and vendetta ... but war requires planning, organization, support, possibly diplomacy, marshalling of resources - so it's hard to have proper war without the mechanisms in place to support it.
So maybe it's not quite so obvious.
- selestify 6y agoIndeed, the article itself says > We had considered scenarios of raids, with small groups of young men killing and stealing food, but to imagine such a big battle with thousands of people is very surprising So it's not so much the violence itself that's the surprise, as it is the scale of said violence