What could replace War?
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Nothing.
Can you think of one thing the human race is better at than kicking the shit out of each other?
Can you think of one thing the human race is better at than kicking the shit out of each other?
Plastic figures, and dice rolls. Defender wins ties, but attacker gets up to 3 dice, as long as he can move more than 3 armies into the other country off the battlefield.
The problem is that you could 'officially' replace war with some kind of game of sport or good old debate, there would be no way to enforce it. It'd only last as long as noone really wants a war, because the moment someone wants to use force to get their way they will do so anyway, and you'd have no choice but to defend yourself and thus fight a war.TeragRunner said:
Say you replace war with go-kart racing. One country gets into some kind of disagreement with another and loses the ensuing race fair and square. Since they conflict was apparently serious enough to go to war over in the first place (after all, the go-kart race was nothing but a replacement for actual war), there would be nothing stopping them from going to war for real this time to get their way despite having lost.
That's kind of the problem with war. Even if you're the most peace-loving nation ever who wants to end all wars and never start one of their own, as soon as another no-so-peaceful nation decides to go to war you've got no choice but to defend yourself. It gets even more complicated when you factor in stuff like alliances that can drag other nations into the fight as well. A plan like this would only work if everyone involved agrees never to go to war and actually keeps their word, which simply won't happen even if there was an alternative everyone could agree on.
haha my thoughts exactly, massive gaming tournaments to solve war, though i hate to think that might actually make japan/china/korea and maybe america total overlords, actually thinking about it if it was CSS then germany would take it hands down, they can't gett enough of that chocolaty counter strike goodness!firedfns13 said:
*Mocking*Xanadu84 said:
That's the great thing about English, we invented national anthems and football, so we can be awful at both and still claim an advantage.
OT, Genetically engineered sports? Whoever can put a colony on Mars first? Whoever finds a solution to the recession? (Answer - don't have an economy in the first place. Native tribes were happier before we gave them guns (yes a very anarchistic view but its true.))
Limiting the planet's population and a fair system of dividing the resources of the world. Else, war will continue for resources. Ideologies will probably remain a dividing line, but it seems that without competition for resources getting out of hand, they might slowly fade into non-voilent disputes.
Information is power nowadays. I think the biggest contributors to Modern Warfare (no pun intended I hate CoD) is the media. They fight our minds everyday.
War is what happens when people want something badly enough to kill or be killed for it. When people reach that point, there is no turning back.
If things could have been settled by a race or game of chess or anything other than war, the conflict would have been resolved by negotiation. So, in short, nothing can replace war. Sad, but true.
If things could have been settled by a race or game of chess or anything other than war, the conflict would have been resolved by negotiation. So, in short, nothing can replace war. Sad, but true.
Business interests. If globalisation gets much of a stronger hold, with a multinational presence capable of evading laws, then war will simply not be allowed by the economic world. It's one of the reasons - along with others - that we're not going to have too many intra-European wars any time soon. We're all too economically integrated for capitalism to function in a state of war, so business interests in politics simply won't let it happen.
Failing that, pokemon cards.
Failing that, pokemon cards.
