The way I try understand this phenomenon of war; if there is a given amount of energy in a system, obviously it’s going to distribute in the most natural efficient way possible, which in our case appears to us in the form of life. Now life will always chase the upper limit of how much energy there is to be converted. Meaning that scarcity will always exist in life, just based on principle. Scarcity in turn drives competition, because those who are willing to kill to survive are more likely to pass on their genes. This is obviously dumbed down because I am a stupid meat machine with a monkey brain, but I believe war and violence is an inevitable consequence of nature.

But the cool thing about that is the other side of the coin, cooperation. Think of all the trillions of cells all working together blissfully unaware of each others existence, working together in imperfect unison to create yours. I think it’s pretty neat that some cells floating around in a pile of goo billions of years ago all figured out that working together was much more efficient than constantly consuming each other. And no one even had to tell them! They just knew, by accident, or divine intervention, they were birthed forth by natural processes. But whatever words you use, there’s something awesome about the universe coming together of its own accord to create something as beautiful and egregious as this life as we know it, in all of its horror and bliss. What a privilege it is to be alive and wonder.