What book did you get that from?

War serves a purpose? Yes. U seful? Debatable.



"it encourages trade since theft is made difficult by armies, and encourages cooperation rather than enslavement" So your saying two countries at war get along better then when they are at peace and there is no pillaging of resources by the army who is also the police.



"Without war, balance is lost and people will take advantage of whatever system forms." The state of war is a system it self and people will take advantage of that (ex: Military industrial Complex, Human Traffic of Syrian Refuges,...)

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"Though, in recent times war has become predictable. An unpredictable enemy who lashes out at everyone makes for the best opponent now, because the easiest way to deal with frustration is to strive to make everyone happy."



Credit where credit is do, this is a good one. We all want it to be this easy and to be the hero all the time.

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- I will stop here, the rest is too mush for this comment section, my computer is lagging allready.