Can There Be Peace?
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I think that there is barely a chance of peace. Maybe in a couple hundred years, but I don't know. I just want others to.CIA said:
Peace is to an extension love, and both of with are hard to extricate out of those who do not want to, Eg the Jaded, misanthropic, anger-filled, or socially 'damaged' due to horrific or traumatic experiences in their upbringing. It would take a monumental overhaul of human nature to alleviate the travesties, ignorance and injustice that humanity bestows upon itself on a daily basis, or strong motivations from many generations to change.
Only thereafter would absolute peace be possible.
Only thereafter would absolute peace be possible.
As long as we are individuals, there will be conflict. Our best hope is to minimize the damage done by conflict.
This. It's possible to be peaceful and have differences, which is something many seem to not realize. You have friends with whom you disagree, but that doesn't ruin your friendship; thus, peace, even with differences. However, as long as there are countries with major differences, and people who don't agree on issues (re: abortion, to name ONE), and the plethora of problems that seem to plague our existence... Well, in our lifetimes, and our children's lifetimes, and our children's children's lifetimes... No.Anarchemitis said:
If your the kind of person for whom the means always justify the ends, then just follow this simple step plan to total world peace:
1-Buy at least 50% of the worlds total nuclear bombs
2-Get a nuclear bomb shelter, (the less people you invite the better)
3-Launch them at everyone, everywhere, (there can't be conflict if you make all the survivors worship you as like a cult leader)
4-Realize that no one likes you
5-Realize how friendly that guns looking...
6-Kill all the cult members
7-Dance naked for the rest of your short lived life
1-Buy at least 50% of the worlds total nuclear bombs
2-Get a nuclear bomb shelter, (the less people you invite the better)
3-Launch them at everyone, everywhere, (there can't be conflict if you make all the survivors worship you as like a cult leader)
4-Realize that no one likes you
5-Realize how friendly that guns looking...
6-Kill all the cult members
7-Dance naked for the rest of your short lived life
how do you define peace? no countries fighting each other? no kids thinking ill of each other on the playground? no internal moral struggles?
do you REALLY want it? i mean sure, you say that, but think about it.
BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING. i can say boring some more if you like.
do you REALLY want it? i mean sure, you say that, but think about it.
BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING. i can say boring some more if you like.
There can never be peace. Conflict is a fundamental flaw in the human character.
I find the words of Plato more pragmatic than John Lennon's:
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
I find the words of Plato more pragmatic than John Lennon's:
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
we could create a desert and call it peace.
and anyway are more important question is would you want peace? the newspapers in a utopia would be boring, and if people are at peace everyone has the same status (Or everyone is willing to except inferior status) and therefore no way of bettering yourself. You would always be the same, average. People are most happy when they are slightly more successful than their peer group. without this success and the the failures to go with it would people be happy or just apathetic?
but to answer your question peace need conflict to define it, and by defining peace conflict destroys it, there a whole ying/yang thing going on.
and anyway are more important question is would you want peace? the newspapers in a utopia would be boring, and if people are at peace everyone has the same status (Or everyone is willing to except inferior status) and therefore no way of bettering yourself. You would always be the same, average. People are most happy when they are slightly more successful than their peer group. without this success and the the failures to go with it would people be happy or just apathetic?
but to answer your question peace need conflict to define it, and by defining peace conflict destroys it, there a whole ying/yang thing going on.
The scorpion needed a ride across the river, and asked the frog to carry him. The frog was uncertain, but the scorpion assured him that he would not harm him for he could not swim and would die, or would not get to the other side.ThePlasmatizer said:
On the way across the scorpion stung the frog. As the frog began to go numb, he asked why the scorpion had doomed them both. The scorpion replied "It's just in my nature"
And human beings are pretty much the same. (thanks plasmatizer
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