Human beings do not actually have instincts. Instincts are complicated behaviors that are inborn, like dam building or flying south for the winter.
People do not have a money-making "instinct." However, they do generally have a drive to move up in the social order and live more comfortably, which in some cultures involves money. In others, it does not.
Also, wars do not require states, unless you define "war" tendentiously as "organized violent conflict that is carried out by a state." Non-state organizations carry out organized violent conflict all the time.
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: Gotta disagree with Freud. War is not instinctive. It's
> learned,
> cultural. It directly contradicts the instinct of
> self-preservation.
>