[extropy-chat] Origin of Wars

[Keith Henson]

At 04:43 PM 11/18/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Robert writes (Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:39 AM)
>
> > On 11/17/06, Keith Henson wrote:
>
> > > Wars were the evolved hunter gatherer mechanism
> > > for keeping the human population in bounds that
> > > could be supported by the ecosystem.
>
>I think that Keith has a very good, but hardly unique,
>description of the basic process. I'm conjecturing that
>no description so far postulated here, however, covers
>all the known cases. For example, there are just too many
>damn wars in which population pressure was not a cause.

I define population pressure in the post stone age as falling income per 
capita or (perhaps more important) the future prospects of falling income 
per capita.  I am not aware of a war where (if you looked) this was not the 
situation.   Which wars do you offer as being cases where there was rising 
income per capita and bright economic future?  (For the side that started 
the war.)

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Keith