Why human race will always be at war

Our species has not evolved much since we have had any written history. While it is arguable that this has been a very short time to expect any noticeable changes, but our social behaviors are also not helping much.

We have a tendency to group ourselves based on race, religion, nationality and a lot more factors. That’s understandable because evolution has taught us that survival is easier in groups. But we tend to use these groupings to limit the mating pattern within a group, which causes genetic crossovers in a limited pool. This constant genetic recycling over the ages has done more harm than good to evolution.

Secondly, our constant medical advancements, while extending the life of our species on the planet has an adverse side effect of disregarding natural selection. This is aided more by the societal makeup. The weak survive and produce off springs. This is not how nature wants it to be. However, cruel it sounds but nature always kills the weak.

Coming back to the original topic - the fact that evolution seems stalled and is likely to be so, human species shall continue to inherit the violent instincts inculcated by evolution.

As a new child is born, all that he possesses is what has been hard-wired into the brain by evolution, including the tendencies of aggression. Living in a world that is already full of hatred, he learns about the violent events in the present and even more so in the past. He grows up to inevitably carry on the legacy of violence, hatred and war. Generation by generation we have continued to tread down the same path and will continue to do so, not because its all our fault, but that’s what we have been hard-wired to do. And the apparent absence of any kind of evolution shall keep the human species in a state of perpetual war with itself and its surroundings till it self-destructs.

There are certain methods in which this can be avoided, but they seem too impractical to ever come into existence. For example, raising generations over a period of thousands of years in complete isolation from the violent past till a point where any tendencies of evolutionary aggression disappear.