Throughout history society has accepted war as part of human nature, as long as we exist, it exists. In “The end of War”, writer John Horgan challenges this concept of inevitable violence. Using a variety of sources, and scientific research Horgan comes to the conclusion that war is not an innate quality in humans, and it should be thought of as a solvable issue. Horgan firmly believes we are just as capable of being peaceful as violent. In his writing, Horgan compares the issue of solving war like solving the cure for cancer. But war and cancer are two different beasts entirely, cancer is an unfortunate element of nature, war is society’s own creation, and it is our choice to abolish it or not. John Horgan does not deny that war is currently
