All wars are started by that ONE GUY

[Tom Phoenix]

The Black Hand seemed to be more than one person. And they lucked out, they weren't even blamed for the war (that much) instead Germany was blamed under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, also known as the "War Guilt Clause."

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was never the "cause" of WWI, but the spark (the casus belli) that set it all alight. World War I had been in the making long before the July Crisis of 1914 and all it needed was an event to start it all. The Algiers Crisis, for example, came very close to starting the war. So if the assassination did not occur, then another event would have started it. By that point, the "War to End All Wars" was simply a matter of when, not if.

As for who was "guilty" for the war, all involved parties could be blamed to some degree. But naturally, the victors placed it all on the defeated Germany....and doomed the world to yet another war.

 

[Sev72]

Maybe not one guy for this one, but a group of American Elites basically decided they wanted independence and got everyone else to follow along. I blame this mostly on Locke though.

Locke was not a contemporary of the American Revolutionaries. I don't have the exact dates, but I know that he wrote his "Second Treatise on Government" well before the founding fathers. They were however very familiar with his ideology and it certainly did influence their thoughts and decisions. I have a feeling the Founding Fathers would have declared independence with or without the "support" of John Locke.

Most of the Founding Fathers ideas were based on those of Locke. He was the one who came up with the idea of Life, Liberty and Property of course we changed that to happiness because of the whole slavery issue, but anyway.

 

[Vohn_exel]

It's not that the one guy starts the war. War is pretty much inevitable by this point, but what that one guy does is stand up, take charge, and say "alright, then lets go to freaking war." Usually everyone's all for it, but no one wants to stand up and do anything about it, thats why one guy can seem to be so evil. All it takes is one guy to spur on a few more people, and they in turn spur on a few more, and pretty soon, you have a war on your hands.