Chapter 05 — Need and opportunity • 05.01 — A need specific to humans, Paragraph 9.4 (§05.01.09.04)

Conflict may follow comparison, but it is only one of the possible outcomes. In other words, humans are not automatically set at birth on a collision course with each other. Conflict (and war) are just one possibility, depending on the environment in which they happen to live. In an environment of abundance there is no reason for conflict, but rather for competitive creation (this is the case today in the digital world). However, in an environment of scarcity (or one controlled by others, and thus limiting to some) the above can lead to conflict. Whether conflict takes place depends on the combined forces of need and opportunity. However, because until now humanity has only known the analogue world, where information is finite, it is understandable that the idea of conflict being natural to humans has arisen.

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