Metrics on the healthiest societies do not reflect what you write so maybe read these BS codes assert before judging. If you believe violence and destruction are the solution, then that is potentially open to anyone. The weapons of today will be obsolete in short order and so those possessing reason understand alliances and collaboration are strength. How powerful would the Mongol forces be in the face of the next pandemic? Bio weapons? Cyber warfare? Brute force is primitive and fleeting, history does demonstrate that.