Re: Reasons for interstellar wars.

In article <A6mdnbTpK4GvtJvbnZ2dnUVZ_vjinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
max@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Keith Morrison wrote:

In the late 1800s and into the 1900s, Christian missionaries traveled for
months (literally) on foot or canoe to bring religion (well, their version
thereof) to the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic. They'd run a good chance of
dying just getting to where they wanted to go and were sometimes met with
outright hostility which meant, at best, several more months traveling
back.

The cost-benefit analysis is highly irrational on the part of the men who
did this. Yet many did.

Yes, religious reasons are an example of the kind of "irrational in the
sense of not involving a proper cost-benefit analysis," at least in
terms of the secular world.



In the early 1900s some economist seriously suggested that war would
disappear as it was not cost/effective.



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