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And, with the fantasy about the perfectibility of man rearing its retarded head, we can finally see this thing to a close at last. And good riddance. Something, something the fool doth think he is wise...

No, that's a new method of infanticide, not a new thing altogether. It's not going to fix your model because it's not a new addition, it's the same thing in a new form.

And now we summarize the summary of what we've summarized. I could be finished reading this right now.

Yes, let's repeat the mantra for the six dozenth time. Gotta pad out this book somehow.

So... war is caused by lack of resources, but lack of resources is fixable. Except that when you fix lack of resources, you get population until lack of resources. That's the repeated cycle you say took place for thousands if not millions of years... yet you think that it's eventually going to stop happening? Using what fragmented logic, my dude? Gah, what do the final five pages have for us?

Ohhh.... fuck. You're one of the people who thought we'd tame the Middle East, aren't you? Damn your ornery hide, that was never going to work, but you helped sell the idea, didn't you?

And now the delusion goes into warp drive. WTF do you mean agriculture is less economically important than in the past. That is not true, has never been true, will never be true, and you damn well know it, you silly hamster. By your own argument, war is caused by food shortage, and agriculture is the antidote to food shortage. You are a fool, sir. You speak self-contradictory nonsense. Get in the sea.

Oh. Right. I forgot the reason he wanted to make this was to absolve humans of responsibility, and discredit the value of religion in any form.

I'm gonna go ahead and say no. You think we have six million years of history where there has always been warfare. I don't need you to give me an additional thirty pages to say whether or not that's going to change after that immense span of time. The answer, unless you forgot to take your blatant pattern recognition pills this morning, is most assuredly no.

No, that's EXACTLY what you find, you just don't term it warfare because of arbitrary perimeters you set. But lighting shit on fire and stealing each other's resources is EXACTLY what you find in nation-states, to exactly the degree you'd expect. You absolute tin of corn, Steven.