War & Human Nature: Crash Course World History 204

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In which John Green teaches you about war! Specifically, John talks about whether humanity is naturally warlike, hard-wired to kill, or if perhaps war is a cultural construct. John will talk about the Hobbes versus Rousseau debate, the effects that war has on human social orders, and the effects that war has on individuals. So is war human nature? Watch and find out what we have to say about it.

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  1. Through selective breeding we humans can eliminate "war loving" individuals without killing them but by preventing them from succeeding in leaving more offspring. By monitoring humans we can determine who has aggressive tendencies and determine if those tendencies were instilled in them by abusive or neglectful parenting. Most people are rendered emotionally broken by their primary care giver while still infants or toddlers. Therefore we as a society must assure every future individual receives full time nurturing without upsets; upsets even as minor as mommy leaving for hours to go to a job. Infants and toddlers suffer immensely by the absence of mommy (or whomever they are most use to) whether they are capable of understanding that she is returning eventually or not.

  2. This podcast is the perfect example of why serious subjects should not be treated flipently e.g. he says that wars happen because young men are warlike. If this were so, why do young men have to be told that weapons of mass destruction are aimed at their country and about to be launched or that women and children are being or about to be murdered and raped to get them to go to war and why do they have to be concriptaed to get them to go. Don't forget, old men start wars, young men have to fight them.

  3. Crash Course 5 :49: "Food and sex"
    Me: My parents a literally watching this video right now.
    Parents: WTF DID YOUR TEACHER TELL YOU TO WATCH IN QUARANTINE???

  4. Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because. No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war.”

    Pain (Naruto Shippuden)

  5. 5:35 Genuine question; with that reasoning then wouldn't the phrase "We must secure the existence of our people…" from Adolf Hitler, fall in line with all historical reasons for warfare? War, as you said, had been meant for gathering resources to ensure the survival of a kin group. So in Hitler's case,, excluding the morality of everything, Anschluss and Lebensraum strategies fits into the category

  6. Marines aren’t soldiers, there marines. Soldiers are in an army, and marines are in an amphibious fighting force. It’s like calling someone in the Air Force a soldier instead of an airmen.

  7. To study why Humans go to war one shall look at "competing" Ant colonies,

    As groups of civilizations we are much more similar to them we would like to admit.

  8. Something else needs to be taken in account when discussing wether or not humans where naturally peaceful or aggressive Paleoanthropology the study of mans ancient relatives

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