Reply #36: If the only issue were "self-determination" we would live in Hobbes-ian

[bemildred]

dystopias, each of us a state unto theirselves. But of course that is ignorant twaddle, humans live in groups, and from time immemorial those groups have fought. Sometimes they fight over things that matter (food, oil, gold, women), but mostly they fight over imaginary twaddle
like religion and nationalism and economic dogma. It is obvious that were we all to pull together, we could ALL be much richer, but the logic of that doesn't seem to appeal to people wrapped up in their little disputes with their neighbors.

I personally don't see any easy solutions. People like their dogmas, and for the most part refuse to admit they are dogmas, and they won't give them up.