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Originally Posted by RascalPuff  Co-specific aggression is when the same species makes war on itself.
(Specific aggression - violence - is usually for food; when not for food then declaration of territory and very often not to the death...)
Humans have the capacity to displace the violence with displays of physical and mental prowess (to determine which mate the female will select), without bringing harm to each other. Animals fighting in context of natural selection usually don't engage in mortal combat, while they determine who is more powerful and/or resilient.
On the other hand, the latent animal instinct of heirarchy organisation can be actively organised - then you have the definition of warfare. Organised warfare - as you are apparently aware - is when an industry - and a society - fortifys it.
Several of the major warmakers were motivated to conquer all, to put an end to war. |
It seems you have answered your own question then ...
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organisation that can be
organised ?? Are you tripping over words ??? Don't you just hate it when I read the semantics and not the intent .... LOL
War or threat of war is an agressive act created or implemented to bring about some advantage to the agressor. So what you are really stating is that as it develops in scale and crosses an ill-defined boundary ... (a human label) ... we can say it is organised.
This has to be conditioned ... its our label and we choose to apply it ... therefore it is a conditioned definition.
cool bananas ... greg
This defining line must mean something to you in the line of debate you wish to follow ... What is the line ??