THE DECISION OF UN-EQUALS: THE GENGHIS KHAN STRATEGY If we cannot agree on means

THE DECISION OF UN-EQUALS: THE GENGHIS KHAN STRATEGY

If we cannot agree on means – shared investment in a common goal, then we can still possibly agree to trade, and cooperate on means, even if not on ends. If our means AND ends are incompatible, we can go our separate ways. If going our separate ways isn’t compatible, then we must either suffer one another’s predation, or go to war. And some of us will not suffer other’s predation. War, subjugation, enslavement, and if necessary, death, is simply a preferable lifestyle unless cooperation is more profitable. )

This is called the Genghis Khan Argument: that equals in power must suffer, but suffering of un-equals in power can be solved by the greater power to the dissatisfaction of the lesser power, if it is appealing.