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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 690108" data-attributes="member: 547">Here's a few plausible reasons:-Religious/Philosophical/Idealogical differences -or the pretense thereof- plenty of times in history wars and battles have occurred in the name of differences in belief.  Various denominations of a faith or school of thought may be fighting each over which interpretation is correct of that faith or philosophy, or rival religiouns or philosophies might compete or antagonize each other.-Pride- somebody simply thinks they are better than someone else and has to prove it for some reason.-A distraction or scapegoat or method of control-  A country facing internal struggels might want to introduce a scapegoat for all of its problems in order to unite its people or distract them from their own squabbles.  A country that just gone through a civil war but still has its various factions antagonizing each other could do well to find another country to go to war with in order to unite all of its people to a common cause and keep them from killing each other.-Perceived sense of duty-  A country may feel (whether it truly should or should not be) that it is responsible for playing policeman for the world or enforcing a certain doctrine- whether it be political, economic, social, or religious.  Any threats to these tenets must be dealt with.-Peace-keeping - somewhat coinciding with the above one, a country may fight in order to stop a greater war from erupting.-Simply for chaos or destruction- a war could be started by an insane, inbred, evil, or decadent nobility or ruling class.-Encouraged by third parties-  A king may decide to go to war because he is egged on by greedy merchants who will profit by selling weapons to both sides or by some other "neutral" party who seeks profit from such a war.  Good for puppet-kings who have been bought off by said nefarious merchants.  Inaccurate press and yellow journalism making the poeple have biased or inaccurate views has also caused several wars.-Apathy- while not an igniter of war- it can sure help it prosper if nobody feels the need to stop a unneeded war, or if nobody is proactive enough to notice at the right time there is a big threat over the horizon.-For security and protection-  The people may feel that another country or people may pose a genuine threat to their way of life.</blockquote>

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