Aliens: The Cure to War

"I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together."
- Ronald Regan

Much of what is said as a joke has a kernel of truth in it and this factious remark by the former president Regan is no different. The truth underlying Regan's comment lies in the science of ecological interactions. Humans, like all other animals, are programmed genetically to gear towards violence. This intraspecies competition, however, is also genetically overruled by interspecies competition. This explains why it must take aliens, another species intelligent enough to threaten our species, for human civil war to end. With that said, humans are the only species capable of overcoming nature. So, it is my hope that we are able to surpass our genetic obstacle of aggression and end this ridiculous "intraspecies"competition.