Often smart people acts like an idiot. Often, perhaps, it’s us that simply misunderstood their true goal.
The Arabs, have so many lands. Yet they keep waging war with Israel over a small piece of land. That’s not unique to Arabs.
Criminals in US kill far more people than terrorists, yet US would want to spend far more money killing terrorists rather than killing criminals. Israel do not even have death penalty but is pretty liberal when bombing Lebanon.
If the sole purpose of all those wars is to protect the innocents’ right, decision making theory should suggest that all those countries should spend more resources fighting evil inside first rather than evil outside. They should, για παράδειγμα, have more death penalty and less war. And all countries will be better off.
The fact that it’s not the case shows that there are other motives. One motive is preference to kill someone outside. More death penalty means antagonizing and killing fellow citizens.
The same with Arab. Killing terrorists means fighting their own kind. It makes more sense to channel all those extra sperms against richer neighbor with different ideology.
Channeling anger somewhere else is the way politicians get their pay check and when every other countries are like that too, it’s arguable that it’s also their people’s best interest to behave the same way.
The way we evolve is when we’re not at war we’re in a competition. Many do not like free fair competition. So somebody got to be the enemy. Good politicians are the one that can then channel that somewhere else.
Should we vanquish evil inside or evil outside? Which one is more profitable? It depends on our neighbor. Lebanon is a good sample. The country practice free market but got bombs anyway and has to deal with Palestine’s refugees’ problem. If prosperity is the aim, then it’s easy to see how Lebanon would improve their wealth by spending more on defense budget.
Morale: If everyone else is asshole, we should cherish evil inside against evil outside. If everyone else is nice, it’s more appropriate to vanquish evil inside.
Which is another important reason to aim to live among nice neighbor.
Here is another morale. If rather than judging we just try to understand, we can learn alot. After all those politicians are just like us, only way smarter and more rational. Whatever they do must have been a very effective to achieve their goal. It’s just that we think they’re an idiot because we misunderstood their goal.
Hidden Motives Behind Wars is a post from: Ελεύθερη αγορά Forever