>War, uh, what is it good for?
I saw a documentation about two male tigers fighting to the death over a female. It was absolutely pointless violence but if you don't fight you don't reproduce and if you don't reproduce your genes disappear. Evolution inevitably selects for the most brutal and aggressive assholes and against the humble, smart and merciful. Life is eternal war, kill or be killed. That goes from bacteria to entire civilizations I hate it but that doesn't change anything.

Traits associated with self-control and introspection are also the biggest factor negatively correlated with human reproductive success. Be educated and reasonable and you will statistically have far less children that an impulsive aggressive subhuman. This is why we can't have nice things and Plato's philosopher state is not viable. It's not resilient and would get wiped out by the first barbarians passing by. So yeah, a civilization unable and unwilling to fight wars is heading straight for the fossil record, just like a civilization that picks a fight with the entire world. You gotta find a middle ground. I wonder who will.