Technology and war

Honestly, I don't think that technology makes us more inclined to make nor does it make us more inclined to make peace. It hink it just changes how we go about doing those things. People will always find things to fight about: land, status, food, love, marriage, children, sharing, lies, law, morals. In Kosmos we learn that Chimps are very violent compared to Bonobos, and yet neither really has any technology. Think people can be peace-makers and war hawks with technology jsut as we are without it.

In Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, human nations only stop fighting each other when they are distracted and united by the war against the buggers, but when the buggers are defeated they fight over other stuff like control over the war genius kids.

Pastor Dan talks about how many major religions believe that the world came out of chaos and is moving towards order and meaning. Well, I can't think of very many things that are more chaotic in nature than war. But Peace isn't necessarily meaningful or orderly... it's just really nice so long as no one is getting taken advantage of, oppressed, etc in the process.

Plus, people often fight wars for the things that they believe in; things that they think will give meaning and order to their lives or their country's existance. Does that mean that peace is chaotic just as war is? (Sorry, I dont' know exactly where I'm going with this.)

Anyway, if people are making up their own higher ideals to fight over, then nature tends to provide disasters that lead to hardships and, you guessed it, war.

Technology doesn't lead us to war or to peace, it just gives us tools to use on the way.