So I have been re-read recently Psychology of War by Lawrence LeShan... and one thing that he mentions there is that humans are attracted to danger, real or percieved. Also, how many people seem to be more happy and fullfilled in wartime than in time of peace and prosperity.

yes... I know I do have a rep for being a critic of the west. I do believe we are a great civilization... but at the same time, our accumulated wealth, elimination most of dangers and living in peace and quiet for too long seems to trigger our decandence and self-destructivness... both on invidual and societal level.

We don't need to struggle for survival... and no longer we need sense and purpose. Hedonism is tolerated and encouraged... but instead of happiness we got misery and self-destruction. The more industrialized the society is the more miserable the people seem to be. The percetage of people diagnosed in the USA seems terrifying... and i don't believe it's only because those in poor countries are underdiagnosed... not saying they are happy and not self-destructive (just look at Russia with their vodka and lately drugs... and high class uberdecandence... but i don't know... I doubt they were drinking themselves to death during WWII as much as they are now).

Various wars, some of them pretty irrational, are not the only symptoms of human self-destructivness (Leshan in his book pointed out that ants and humans are only two species that do organized violence). We managed to limit wars lately... at least here in democratic west. But we tend to do thinks destructive on personal and societal level. I am not for regulating bad behavior... But we should look at ourselves and think if we are doing a good think of ourselves and our species...