When soldiers die, nations build memorials honoring the dead. The soldier's death--and memorials erected in the name of the soldier's death--function to PROVE THE EXISTENCE AND POWER OF THE NATION-STATE, demonstrating how devoted people are.

 Death PROVES THE REALITY of the nation-state; the sacred ideal.

Death in warfare is a methodology through which a nation or religious group validates its sacred ideal. The purpose is to submit to a sacred entity or idea and to die or be wounded in the name of this sacred idea or entity.

Warfare is a form of CULTURAL SUBMISSION, which people avoid noticing by pretending it is a manifestation of MALE AGGRESSION.

The pathetic soldiers are duped into believing that by fighting in a war they are demonstrating their "masculinity;" whereas in reality they are manifesting weakness; inability to resist submitting to the nation-state and its leaders.

The field of "evolutionary psychology significantly embraces this profound denial of reality by pretending that death in war is related to an adaptive "survival mechanism." The opposite true: Millions of men die in wars and do not pass their genes along. 

 The objective of warfare is not the survival of the individual organism (human being), but survival of an ABSTRACT IDEAL, the nation-state, or a religious idea worshipped by a particular group.

This impulse to PRESERVE THE SACRED IDEA OR OBJECT is so powerful that human beings forfeit their individual lives in the name of this ideal (and don't pass their genes along).

HAMAS is a pitiful, destructive organization, but they do have a more accurate understanding of the dynamics of cultural violence than do evolutionary psychologists.

"We love death the way you love life."

Death functions in the name of confirming the reality of the sacred ideal. In the name of this ideal, human beings forfeit their individual lives.