Human nature, beingwhat it is, war is unavoidable.

I don't agree with the statement which says that human nature, being what it is war is unavoidable. Indeed, human nature is not something that is fixed and remains unchanged.You are not born bad or good.In the past, before the renaissance and humanism, people believed that man was inherently wrong, but humanism refuted this idea and placed man at the centre.They believed that human nature could be improved and I agree with this idea.Many factors play a part in the moulding of your nature as you grow up : the type of education you receive, the society in which you live,whether you live in a democracy or not.The presence of war can't be explained by the nature of people, because nature is something flexible .A person can be good and then become bad if they are influenced inappropriately. To give an example, in some countries, there are many children who are trained to become soldiers or terrorists, it does not mean that these children are basically wrong.They live in an environment which teaches them that fighting is good, they have not been taught that fighting is bad, that's why they can't differenciate between good and bad . On the contrary if a person is raised in a ideal background in a democratic country he is more likely to have values which enable him to know that war is bad.Nevertheless, we can't deny the fact that mankind tends to be selfish and greedy.There are countless of examples in the history of humanity which prove that man is capable of the worst horrors.War is always a result of selfishness, the lure of money and power. However, even if we don't live in a perfect world and that there's a lot to be done to reach a peaceful world, we shouldn't go as far as to say that there's nothing to do to prevent war because of the nature of man.There are lots of examples of people who struggled in life to bring justice and peace to their country never resorting to war, think about Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King.So I definitely believe that we can work to improve human nature for the better.