[arnaudvalette]

Three affirmations made from a borderline perspective, no arguments given.

Macho-ism is a psychopathetical ideology, it's the worst part of being human. It's the reason of wars and absurd conflicts, and everything bad that has come from it. You don't need theories to conclude about its toxicity.

[argentier]

The reasons for war are rarely absurd, and are about groups competing for limited resources. Saying it's anything to do with 'macho-ism' (which is certainly nothing like an ideology, if it is anything at all) is smug feminist nonsense.

[arnaudvalette]

I would love to hear a full analysis from your part on the question of "are the reasons of war absurd" because I am not convinced by your argument about "groups competing for limited resources" and honestly it felt like a clumsy generalization of some facts (which could be made-up).

Well, macho-ism is an abstraction constructed/used in order to communicate about some system of ideas or ideals related to "having pride in one masculinity". I am not interested in discussing whether or not this is a cause of war or not (but obviously it is a cause of conflict).

My previous comment was a parody of its parent (even if I tend to agree with what is said in it), the desired effect was to reveal how intensely absurd was the previously evoked " parent".

[argentier]

You asserted that the reasons for war were absurd, and you blamed 'macho-ism', which you didn't define.

So you go: why are the reasons for wars so absurd?

Was machoism the cause of Gulf War 2, or the Ukraine war, to give two recent examples?