“All animals wage perpetual war; every species is born to devour another. Not one,
not even sheep or doves, that does not swallow a prodigious number of invisible
creatures. Males make war for the females, like Menelaus and Paris. Air, earth, water,
are fields of carnage. God having given reason to men, this reason might teach them no
to emulate the brutes, particularly when nature has provided them neither with arms to
kill their fellows nor with a desire for their blood.”
“Can there be anything more horrible in all nature?”
- Voltaire
Which of the following is the reason given why there is war?