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war /wɔr/ [wawr] noun, verb, warred, war·ring, adjective, noun
1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.
3. a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.
4. active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.
5. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.
6. a struggle: a war for men's minds; a war against poverty.
7. armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict: War is the soldier's business.
8. Cards. a. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down. b. an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.
9. Archaic. a battle.
vi·o·lence/ˈvaɪələns/ [vahy-uh-luhns] noun
1. swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
2. rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment: to die by violence.
3. an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws: to take over a government by violence.
4. a violent act or proceeding.
5. rough or immoderate vehemence, as of feeling or language: the violence of his hatred.
6. damage through distortion or unwarranted alteration: to do editorial violence to a text.
Originally posted by hyperion.martin
... non-sentient animals were having battles long before we created the idea of peace.
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Originally posted by hyperion.martin
... non-sentient animals were having battles long before we created the idea of peace.
Mmm, no.
Animals kill each other mostly to eat.
We kill each other to protect/instill concepts.
Originally posted by hyperion.martin
reply to post by schrodingers dog
I would not say that comparing one group of mammals fighting as a team to achieve a common goal of securing territory to another group of mammals doing the same thing....anthropomorphizing anything.
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to, or, some would argue[1][2], recognition of human characteristics in non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. en.wikipedia.org...