Nature's Inequalities

I didn't find much to say about these two chapters, but that I noticed that the Houyhnhnms ask Gulliver about the causes of war when he is talking about his hom back in Europe. When he asked about war, he does his best to provide the horses with reasons, but none seem quite convincing. From this I can tell that the creatures have never heard of such a thing as war, and the heavy, cold consequences it brings are also completely unkown to them. Again I see nature's superiority in this matter. However, I see how this also contradicts what we previously read in The Selfish Gene. In his book, Richard Dawkins explained how nature is not built to be perfect. There is no way in which it can exist to benefit everyone, it wouldn't be balanced if nature were structured that way, for in the end, eventually, someone would loose. Competition and conflict must be present for balance to exist, and this is why I think, this time, that man isn't all that wrong. I don't mean to say that war is an explanation for balance, or that the massive amounts of death that result from it are necessary for this balance to exist. What I mean to say, is that we can't exactly expect our society to be completely fair and equal to evryone. Up untul a certain degree, I believe that a "not so equal" division or distribution of wealth and power is necessary. If these images of power were not to exist, then betrayal would be far more likely to occur, as it is proposed to happen in nature by Dawkins. Those who hold power should learn to make the best of it, and although not everyone will recieve benefit from it, they should work to make the distribution of it so that a certain balance is kept.