Is there something in the human psyche that makes us want to fight each other all the time? Is it in our DNA? We humans have fought and killed each other for hundreds if not thousands of years. Who knows where our civilization would be if all that time, effort and money wasted could have been directed into much more productive uses other than killing each other.
There is only a limited amount of space on the planet. Why is it so hard to let everyone have their own chunk of land to practice life however they want to? Why does it seem to be in our nature to make everyone else on the planet think that our way is the only way and that I have to push that over on everyone else? They just push back and wars and killing go on. It seems like it will never stop.
— John Lapkass, Anchorage
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