There is diversity in value.  However, this doesn’t mean there is war of all against all.  It’s certainly possible that conflicts are caused by who owns what.  Conflicts can also be caused by which ends to achieve or how to achieve them.  I’m not saying these are the only causes of conflicts, but they are important causes.  There are two very different types of conflicts: biologic and catallactic.

The discussion about competition is unrealistic.  Biologic competition is between most animals.  A lion and a zebra or a lion and hyena.  In the first, the lion is trying to get food, the zebra is trying to live.  In the second, there is a dispute over territory, they can’t both live in the same location.  There is a clear winner and loser in biologic competition.  This is universal among animals—with one exception—humans.

Humans are equipped with something no animal has, reason.  Reason is what makes humans cooperate.  Humans engage in catallactic competition.  We don’t fight with other humans over food and territory.  A grocery store will try to convince us to shop at one rather than the other.  Both grocery stores can compete without slaughtering the other.  They can even operate in the same location.  A win-win situation has emerged.

Animals compete with one another over scarce resources.  Humans are able to cooperate.  Humans were able to substitute biologic competition for catallactic competition—better known as cooperation.  Of course, there will always be asocial individuals that won’t cooperate.  That doesn’t stop the vast majority of people from cooperating.  These asocial individuals must be dealt with for the rest of us to cooperate.

The way these asocial individuals are dealt with is private property.  Many may say they’re for private property, but it’s clear they aren’t in practice.  You own your body and anything you mix your labor with.  You can use your labor to earn money.  That money can be used to pay for a place to live.  You can exclude all others from that location.  It’s not war of all against all or all groups against all groups.  It’s a battle of ideas, the battle of property rights.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Theory and History