Why can’t we live in peace?

Question from the Internet:

“Just thinking the planet is big enough for everyone but why do we rest in peace and not live in peace?”

We can’t live in peace because we are all born with a “warmongering” nature, knowingly, unknowingly we are all ruthlessly competitive, comparing ourselves to others, trying to overcome others in everything we can, we all try succeeding at the expense of others.

This is how we are born, how we are built so we are not guilty, sinful about it. Moreover, most people are honestly unaware of the true desires, intentions, aspirations driving them and are convinced that they want peace and want good for others.

Only when we reach critical situations when in order to make, uphold peace, balance, the cooperation we would need to give up what is precious for us, is when we realize that there is a limit to our “peacefulness”.

Today our inherently exploitative, selfish nature has developed so much, that we do not even want families, children on our own, as even for our “loved ones” we are incapable of making the necessary concessions. Thus we come together as long as it is beneficial for both of us, but the moment my egoistic self needs to make too many, too deep compromises, everything is off.

We can start to work towards peace, above and against our inherent nature only, when we recognized who we are, how we truly behave and we are willing to change ourselves — instead of coercing, misleading, changing others — in order to build peace and stable societies, international relationships on a global scale.