The problem I see is not mutual combat, but the institutionalization of combat.

"Since it is a fact that warfare is as much a part of man as his capacity for cooperation and clever diplomacy, it cannot be ignored. Creation and destruction seems to me to be a cosmic principle."

I vehemently disagree, because we have innumerable examples of non-institutionalized combat that reveal it is institutionalization that creates the bloody battlefield, while warriors counting coups suffices for sovereign individuals contesting.

We see the animal world contesting existentially for access to feeding grounds, for mates, for leks of every kind, without strewing battlefields with corpses. it is the antichrist, the undead, undying, unloving and unsuffering institution that mandates death and wanton destruction, because it feels no bite, no sword in the guts, that men and stag do feel.

Modern technology enables the eschewing of institutions, of overlords and collective industry and battle. Means of production are now automated, simple to use, and fit on a kitchen table, in a sunny window, in our garage, and no longer require us to be subjugated to overlords to earn taxable wages or be protected by their armed gangs of thugs to prevent being enslaved by barbarians bursting from the steppes on their war-mad ponies. Our microwave moats and laser arrays can blind and cook meatbags seeking to oppress us, and we can build them ourselves, and have no need of shartmart selling them to us.

Governments are institutions, corporations, the antichrist, not society, not people themselves working together to secure themselves and their community from marauders or overlords. We transcend centralization with decentralized means of production of every good and service, including our security. Modern tech makes all collective subjugation obsolete.

We the people can still interact, still do ritual battle like stags for mates, for leks, for our stomping grounds, and like stags not battle to the death, like Native American warriors count coups instead of scalps the institutions of nation states and priest kings can collect and count. Individual sovereignty is created by modern decentralized means of production. Terran 1, the first 3D printed spacecraft, launched in March 2023. This clinal boundary is just beginning to be transcended, the infrastructure of freedom is just beginning to roll out, to develop and disperse across the population. We have evolved in largely egalitarian meritocracies where Stone Age tech required individual households to themselves manufacture their necessities of life, until collective industry began with agriculture to create surpluses that could be parasitized by psychopathic overlords to support armed gangs of thugs to conquer and control society that have centralized production for recent millennia. The advance of tech has been long and slow, and all of history has been of subjugation to overlords through their exclusive monopoly on armed gangs of thugs that have been the leading edge of security tech.

But that's over. Armed meatsacks are obsolete. Modern tech that can be produced on a kitchen table can prevent squishy meat from kicking down our doors, can prevent armies from projecting force for acquisitive overlords. All we have to do is make it ourselves, to return to the egalitarian meritocracy we evolved in that can today enable sovereign individuals to possess and employ decentralized means of production of modern tech to secure our castles and produce our goods. Centralization is shown to be a temporary phase humanity has suffered to enable tech to advance from the Stone Age to the Space Age, and that transition is now complete.

And we stand of the edge of the abyss of stars, where illimitable resources await our whim to develop into inconceivable wealth in absolute, unfettered freedom. We can deliver our posterity the stars themselves as footstools for their feet, that they can enjoy unimaginable felicity in their good company, in perpetuity.