So is territory the same reason wars start? Obviously not over bathrooms, but over land, something one country owns and another wants. Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian animal behaviorist, described the competition of territory this way: “If you put together two little boys, two fish of one species, two roosters, two monkeys, they will behave exactly as Mark Twain describes a meeting between Tom Sawyer and a new boy. The first words Tom says are, ‘I can lick you,’ and the inevitable fight ends just as soon as one boy hollers ‘Nuff!’ It’s not a drive to kill another person, but the drive to lick him into submission. It has to do with rank order or territory, and not with a killing instinct’ “. Unfortunately, the people who run wars don’t seem to be as flexible as I am with altering my bathroom stall.