Why People Fight Over Religious Doctrines?
So that people don’t fight their king, a wise king will come up with some common enemies the people should kill and fight to unite the people.
When Frederick from Holy Roman Empire attack the Pope, the Pope wisely told all those excess hot heads to attack the Muslims in another crusade.
When a Sultan have full harem, how can he prevent those who don’t get any women from rebelling By encouraging the non alpha males to commit Jihad. So that they die. Gee, and all this time we are taught that prostitution is inhuman.
That’s why Saladin didn’t destroy all Christian cities. He left some. Saladin knew that once common enemies are gone, the Muslims will fight against each other.
He could also be quite compassionate. However, any preferences must have some selfish motive too right. That’s the fundamental assumptions behind selfish genes theory. And that’s an assumption that has correctly predict plenty of phenomena.
Of course, it won’t be fair to pick only Christians and Muslims as samples. The truth is all societies have their fair share of war that’s unworthy to fight.
Some wars are necessary. When US don’t have nukes aimed at China, they’re dust, literally. The same way when China don’t have nukes aimed at US, we’re dust literally too.
When we’re not at war, we’re in a race. Some people are not competitive, so they want war. The underlying structure of life is a virtual latent gun fight.
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