fncceo
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So you are saying that all wars are fought based upon ideological differences?I was expecting a ballpark answer.When would you say that was exactly?The moment we decided as a species that it's more profitable to trade than to steal.
When you start trading, the outsider becomes an resource, not a threat.
Feb 2, 8,736 BCE ... at approximately 2:35PM.
There sure have been a lot of wars since then don't you think?
Maybe they didn't get the memo.
You're confusing ideological difference with physical differences. Or, perhaps, you fail to make the distinction.
I certainly don't believe they were fought based on physical differences... although there certainly were physical differences between the tribes in most wars.
Many wars we've fought contain a racial component, but the real causes are ideological. Racialism is an appeal to a visceral hatred that comes in handy when inciting the population to support a war, but it's not the prime mover of wars.
I'm not saying that hard-wired xenophobia doesn't exist any longer, if certainly does. I'm saying it hasn't been an evolutionary advantage for humans for millennium.