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What's the frame you find premature?

• watwut 6y ago
  Not him but: > the ways that we rationalize our warfare, tribalism and such cannot actually be the reason for war It can. War is just using violence to get what you want or need. It is not something special. Animals being violent do not prove anything about our reasons for war.
  • dalbasal 6y ago
    War is a specific behaviour, more complex than just violence. It has all sorts of characteristics.
    • watwut 6y ago
      Like coordination to commit that violence and large scale. But the whole point is to use violence to get what you want.
• clairity 6y ago
  that war is such an essential characteristic to categorize it as a precognitive process. politics, as progenitor to war, is the jockeying of position for constrained resources, which seems to me to be the more discriminating, if less provocative, framing. politics pervades life, war not so much.