Poll: World Peace?

[Cheesus333]

As long as there are humans on the face of the planet, there will be no moment of peace. It's an unfortunate fact of our biology and psychology that we're violent and conflict-prone by nature. Were we to cast that aside somehow, we'd cease to be human.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but still, it wouldn't be peaceful human civilisation.

there will always be those that are unhappy/ hate somebody else/ have a psychotic belief system that they are willing to fight and kill over. humans are naturally aggressive and need violence in there lives

Handily enough, this guy helps me reinforce my point on two levels. One with the content of the post itself, and one with his avatar. That captures the problem in a nutshell.

 

[loc978]

Plato was and is still correct. "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

Even in the event of human extinction, the species that outlive us will still be killing one another. Circle of life and all that garbage.

Also, my favorite sentiment from Firefly (technically from the movie Serenity, same thing):
"Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people?better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave."

Moral of the story: the nature of biological life begets conflict. In order to end all conflict, one must remove all biological life.
...yay Reapers..?

 

[Jelly ^.^]

War will stop when there is nothing left to fight for.

And with the VAST amount of nukes sitting around, US Hegemony on the decline and several developing powers surging forward, that reality could come sooner rather than later. If we realise at all what we're actually fighting for, it will be too late.

 

[Radoh]

It all depends, when is Lelouch Vi Britannia supposed to instigate the Black Rebellion?

 

[JRCB]

We will have it when everyone is dead. Plain and simple.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

No, and I hope we don't get World Peace. Think about it. Why are most stories interesting? Conflict. Without conflict in our lives, everything would be rather dull.

 

[Nouw]

Obviously not in today's world but eventually we will.

When these guys come >.>

Am I the only one here thinking that wars don't have to be fought with each other >.>?

 

[kakaomasse]

there will be peace when only the coackroaches are left....

 

[tehfeen83]

No, people have been knocking the shit out of each other since we climbed out of the primordial soup. The only thing that has changed is that we have have gotten a lot, lot better at it.

 

[Exterminas]

Sorry but that depends soley on how you define "peace" and "non-peace" = "war"

Is hatred, the emotion already a disturbance of world peace? Is trolling on a forum?

 

[Wildcard5]

Possibly, even if it is only through shared universal sorrow.....

 

[sizzle949]

Perhaps, but it'll be in the form of a mass dictatorship that pretty much eliminates any dissenters as soon as they pop up. It'll be peaceful, just not all that great a society to live in. Probably something like 1984 but with just one giant nation instead of three seperate.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Probably not, but I wouldn't presume to know what will happen in 1000 years with any degree of certainty.

 

[Digital_Hero]

No, for one simple reason.
Think of our history as a race, we are BUILT upon bloodshed, and hatred, and plain old differences.
To deny it would be to deny what makes us human.

Essentially, peace is a pipe dream created by the kind of people who like to think humans DON'T like killing, and that we wont CONTINUE killing.

I think it was best said in this, and I cant remember who im quoting here but its not mine
"Since the dawn of humanity, the world has known maybe 15 minutes of peace. Then we figured out big objects kill things." (paraphrasing ftw)

 

[Carlston]

When the factor of the invisible man in the sky is removed.

We might have a chance at world uneasy peace. But when people war for a mythical deity that allows them to do the most depraved things just to kill someone who believes in a different deity. Not a chance.

 

[mattttherman3]

Not until the Vulcans land we won't

 

[luclin92]

yes when the alien invade

 

[Geekosaurus]

Who the hell voted yes? No. Just no.

 

[Faladorian]

Not until everybody is dead, no. People will find ways to hate each other for their differences. Also, if everyone was the same, they would hate each other because they would remind them of themselves and incite more hate.