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(08-06-2012 12:51 PM)raliv Wrote:  

proximity + diversity = war

Yeah, this is Roissy's statement. To be honest with you, I've never really understood it as a particularly profound. Wars are fought by different sides, which necessitates some level of diversity. And of course, conflicts generally happen over some particular piece of turf or resource where the two sides bump heads.

There's plenty of examples, however, of people who aren't particularly diverse going to war with each other: Irish Catholics vs. Irish Protestants, black Crips vs. black Bloods, one Italian crime family against another. I guess you could argue that the one difference in each of those cases equals diversity, but that's not a particularly meaningful definition of diversity.

That statement is a tautology.