This is our last week on Freud, until we come back again for our project on Why War?     For this week, let's have Jeremy and Asher post by Sunday, and everyone else respond to them by Tuesday.   The question is:

Jeremy and Asher:
Why does Freud emphasize that an inclination to violence for its own sake - rather than poverty or injustice - is the true cause of war?   AND - do you agree with this or not, and why?    This is a minimum of 2 paragraphs; one on Freud and one on yourself.

Everyone else:
Is there anything else that supports Freud's emphasis on the cause of war being our own violent nature that Jeremy or Asher did not include in their paragraph?   AND, do you agree with that premise from Freud, and why?    Again, this is two paragraphs.

I would like you to site passages from Freud's letter when responding to the first question with the page and the paragraph number (page x, paragraph y).

Next week we will watch a short part of Hotel Rwanda, and talk about genocidal conflicts and non genocidal conflicts outside of WW2 and the factors that led to these conflicts, and then move into The Melian Dialogue.