Thomas Paine wrote:These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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I don't know what it would take. I don't think it ever was the situation.
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I think it boils down to instinct. As long as there is more than one person in the world, there will be competition. And, somebody will always escalate it.
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Good question. To boil the complex answer down to something simple, there are no good or bad instincts. It all boils down to the primal instincts to survive.
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The threat in those cases is internal. The only way to kill the demon within is to kill the host.