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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It would be nice, but violence and mass violence goes in cycles, and we're ramping up to another period of high levels of stress on individual, family and national groupings. As the economy gets more frazzeled, and other factors come into play we'll see another major conflict.
Man's history is littered with periods of relative calm, but our nature is based around dominance
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That's too simplistic. Man's nature isn't necessarily based on dominance. Only in certain individuals is the basis dominance. Other individuals that is not the case. As violence is more and more no longer part of the experience of people, it will become less of a factor. Humans as a species are growing more and more cooperative on the whole.
Nature doesn't insist on dominance, rather it was the best way to get to this point. Now cooperation is the way to go, so it is likely humans will continue to shift towards that. It's a myth that humans are necessarily violent.