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SYSK Choice: The New Science of Human Metabolism & The Real Reasons Wars Exist

Something You Should Know

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The Drives to Fight in War

Two things are really, really important in this question of why individuals go to war and at the extreme why they sacrifice themselves to groups. And those two things are status and belonging so seeking status so a higher position within your social group, and then belonging so belonging to a coherent social group. I argue that it's actually those two things that drive us to fight in wars - not religion or geodism.

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