Why Peace?
Which comes first, chicken and egg. Some of you are philosophical and realize that eggs DNA do not change for the whole of life time and hence egg is the right answer. However, most of the time it doesn’t make any different.
Eggs cause chicken and chickens cause eggs. Both are correct. It’s not a circular argument. It’s a positive feedback system.
And those arguments are used by both the Israel and Palestine. The Hamas says that they launch rocket because Israelites kill civilians. Israelites say that they commit military operation to prevent suicide bombing.
Both sides argue that the other sides start first and that their acts are just response of demonic acts from the other sides. Both are correct. Vengeances are like chicken and eggs.
The issue is not who started it, but whether the system is positive feedback or not.
However, it’s not that bad actually.
Think it this way. Say there is no vengeance. Say we all opt for peace too much even though we have the capability to slaughter our opponents, at some costs to us. Then people will think that we’re a wussy. Then every body will beat us up.
The Jews in Medina, for example, when under siege by Muslims troops choose to surrender quickly, giving up all their lands. Within a few years, a few Jewish tribes then end up facing genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Nadir.
This goes all the way till 1945 in the hand of so many people from various religions.
The Japanese has different algorithm as is shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_Ronin. Here, the ronins don’t care whether they win or lose them just care about avenging their master and preserving their honor.
In a cruel world where laws are unclear, people slaughter the meekest. Those so full with evil that they don’t value their life to kill the other side is often those who survive better in the gene pool.
This honor thing then has a monetary value. It is more auspicious for people to lose some money, or even life, if they can more properly align people’s interests with theirs. That’s where our ideas of justice and honor come from, which do serve some evolutionary advantage.
So war is not too bad. Let them kill each other. Soon, once they’ve inflicted enough damage, they manage to maintain proper reputation that it doesn’t pay to fuck each other off. Then maybe there will be peace.
Love of money is root of all peace. Let’s all hope the war gets expensive enough for both sides that they start seeing peaceful solution profitable. Only then, there will be peace.