Hence war.

Is that a fair assessment of your position?

So what exactly is your position on why there is war?

Quite a romantic (and that is not to say false) insight.

There are wars because there are limited resources. That country wants the silk the other country has but refuses to trade copper for it. Or that country has taken all the plutonium to make Nuclear weapons, we want that plutonium!

Statistically... some men die old, some women die young, and the average difference in longevity is not THAT great.

Even protozoa have males and females. The malaria parasite has a sexual reproductive cycle -- microgametocytes and macrogametocytes. It's our biology. Why ask why?

There is complementarity. Have you been in a rewarding relationship with a member of the opposite sex? I only ask, because at the unit of a male-female relationship, no one really thinks of how "everything is unfair" by virtue of a global discrepancy. People think -- in whatever terms -- about compatibility with another human. About sharing.

Oh -- and men wage war on other men. Go ahead and do your search to find a war that females instigated. If you find one it won't have been one of the big ones. I guess Elizabeth I is one, she took on the Spanish Armada in 1588; Joan d'Arc led her armies, etc. But this is few and far between. War is pretty much a way that powerful men settle disputes at the expense of the livelihoods and lives of their subordinates.

Correct me if I'm wrong Ennui, but are you not saying here that men go to war because the alternative is to die after woman and hence the world becomes empty. It may not be a conscious choice, as such. And it may not be The Reason, but it is certainly close to the sentiment of a meaningful relationship.
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I think he was a bit obscure, in what he was not actually speaking about the sexes, but using then as some kind of twisted example. If I interpreted him correctly I agree with him

The cause of war is the fact that people hold ideas of who are their "allies" that do not include the whole world. If you dont consider someone your "friend", you wont treat in differently from an obstacle in the way or an opportunity.

War are motivated by several reasons:

- dislike towards others
- greed for resources
- megalomani
- revenge
- paranoia
- thrill
..etc...

I think the vikings put it best... "You have what I want, therefore I must kill you, and take it." --some documentary I don't remember the title to. Watched it in high school.

But really, there are two genders because that enables genetic diversity, which increases the chances of the species surviving. More to it, but on the simplest of levels, that about sums it up.

haha!