War! What is it good for?!?

Came across this earlier:

http://battles.nodegoat.net/viewer.p/23/385/scenario/1/geo/fullscreen

This is interesting in a horrifying way. It's like looking at a car crash - you know it's going to be gory, but somehow you're drawn to look...

I wonder about the world. We are a bellicose species, we humans. And lest we think that we've become better at reducing the large-scale violence, notice the number of deep red dots, indicating things since WWII... How much better would the world be if we could stop killing one another? What kind of brain drain does this loss of life represent? Maybe the cure for cancer? Maybe the warp drive that will propel us into the cosmos? Maybe an idea for a clean and efficient power source? Who knows. The point is, we'll never know, because we've removed that potential from the planet.

What's the answer? I don't know. We have a long history of killing each other. Maybe we should just stop it.

I'll let Edwin Starr take it from here:

Or maybe some G-n-R:

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