Daniel B

Human sacrifice, slavery, divine right of kings, subjugation of women. These are just some of the social institutions that ,at some point in history, people wondered whether or not they were inevitable. The same is true of war. It's possible that we'll be able to end war and it's possible that war will end humanity. The answer depends on us. If humanity can figure out how to curtail extremist ideologies and continue to spread liberal democracy through out the world, in some form or another, there's a good chance that in a century, war will follow the same trajectory that slavery followed. Perhaps much of the reason for this might be due to economics. Like slavery, as war becomes economically unprofitable, especially if the world economic continues to integrate, war will be bad for business.