Höffe:. Journal für Phi

War and violence have been more of a norm than an exception in human history. Even in the Stone Age, artists depicted battles with bows and arrows on cave walls. The Working Group on the Causes of War counts 242 wars from the end of World War II to 2020 alone. This includes the murder of over five million European Jews during the Holocaust, numerous massacres of indigenous peoples during the colonization of South and North America, and genocides such as that of the Armenians. Although not everyday occurrences and far from being actively practiced by all, it seems that violence against fellow humans and war are part of the nature of the species 'homo sapiens.' However, there are exceptions. "Imagine there's a war and no one goes" is not a utopia. Boxer Muhammad Ali and philosopher Bertrand Russell have exemplified this.