[TheCoelacanth]

You are completely misconstruing his argument. It has nothing to do with lack of introspection.

It is that war was ubiquitous and accepted as a positive thing in society, unlike now where it is viewed as at best a necessary evil.

[bko]

It's not just war. Take infant deaths. Absolutely devastating today, but a large percent of people went through that in the past. They even re-used the names of their dead children.