Poll: World Peace?
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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?
Is hatred, the emotion already a disturbance of world peace? Is trolling on a forum?
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.
Probably not, but I wouldn't presume to know what will happen in 1000 years with any degree of certainty.
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
Sorry to say, but peace is impossible, and if possible will be a fleeting thing quickly forgotten as the next megalomaniac rises.
It is human nature to want power, and people cannot accept peace, as it is not human nature
I myself would want peace, but it sadly will never happen
It is human nature to want power, and people cannot accept peace, as it is not human nature
I myself would want peace, but it sadly will never happen
No. as long as human beings have free will, they will strive to be better, and this will result in conflict. We define our own self-worth through conflict. How many times did you and your friends compare grades? How many of you play sports/games? Almost every meaningful human experience, as well as most forms of entertainment, origninate in conflict. If you remove the conflict, you remove what it means to be human, you remove what it means to be a sentient being.
Unification doesn't mean complete peace. Our race only has meaning through conflict, peace and contentment cannot be the only things in our lives. To do so is a stagnant, rotting existance, not the life of a sentient creature.Dana22 said:
Limithing people's actions to only doing good isn't peace, because you can't control thier thoughts. Also, what is "good" for one is often "bad" for another.Idiotastic said:
Even if it ever does happen, some asshole will most certainly fuck it up.
Remember that Simpsons episode, where Lisa wished for world peace, and because of that, aliens were able to take over the world with nothing more than a club and a slingshot?
That's the kind of thing I mean.
Remember that Simpsons episode, where Lisa wished for world peace, and because of that, aliens were able to take over the world with nothing more than a club and a slingshot?
That's the kind of thing I mean.
Well, spelling mistake that bugged the hell out of my OCD aside, this is a difficult question. An answer really depends on a persons interpetation of what peace consists of, and what a realistic level we as a species may be able to reach.rvbnut said:
Mankind is selfish. Mankind has always been and will always be selfish. It is not a flaw that we can, or even should correct. It is our greatest instinctual asset, our best tool, and our greatest drive in every sense, just as it is our greatest weakness an barrier. It is our identity.
We are all driven to some degree to fulfill our own desires. Some are purely self serving and ambition-feeding. Others fulfill their need to fulfill the needs of others to improve upon them selves. While our what we are motivated to do may change though, what is motivating us will always be the same.
I believe that, some day, on an over all level, it is possible for humanity to achieve peace amongst eachother. It is almost certainly our ultimate destiny to be united by what is most common among us.
However, individuals will still disagree, bicker, resist, steal, indulge, fight, etc., because that is who we are. We may be able to solve our differences as a species, we are all individuals, we are all different, with different rationals and means of self fulfillment.
There will always be a crimerate in paradise, but I doubt it would be to high.
Ofcourse, if there isn't free will to ALLOW the possibility of crime, it isn't really paradise, is it?
It's the nature not just of humans but of all living beings to want more. We are always coverting others, always driven by greed. Even a wolf within a pack will want more from a kill or to be the alpha male. Humans are no different except we have something more, we can be driven by hate, revenge. Humans are more complex than the animal who can covet but that doesn't mean we're better.