What could replace War?

[ScruffyTheJanitor]

Super giant orbital lasers!!! MUHAHAHAHHAAHA

What were we talking about again? oh yeah.

Just give several thousand xboxs to each team and just make a world sized map. A couple of massive vent servers and done... but the way gaming ends up in some cases, i doubt that will remove the casualties.

 

[RealLifev2.0.09]

So my wonderful thinkers of the Escapist what do you think could replace war?

Already obsolete. That's why no-one can win one anymore. Any country that goes to war against another country automatically loses by default.

Just because there has not been another world war in 60 years (A relatively small period of time as far as humanity is concerned) is not evidence that war is obsolete. I am pretty sure several other nations, groups, and forces have won victories within the past 60 years. You could say none were permanent but nothing ever is.

Two examples being:
Taliban taking control of Afghanistan
North Vietnam's victory over South Vietnam

OT: But as it has been said before the only known end to war would be the end of humanity.

 

[SD-Fiend]

wi fi pokemon battle

 

[antigodoflife]

Football? It's nationalistic and violent enough.

But America would always win! That's the problem, we created football.

OT: I'd say

...Peace?

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No, America did not invent football, America invented Gridlock yes, but not football.
Technically the country who invented Soccer, invented football, as that's a more international version of football.

The versions of Football i know are, Gridlock, AFL, Rugby and Soccor... antone know any others?

 

[Thamous]

With human nature being what it is, nothing could replace war. Until humanity as a whole develops the ability to solve problems peacefully, war will still exist. But, if your asking what I would like to replace war, I'd say arm-wrestling. Why?Why not.

 

[antigodoflife]

Football? It's nationalistic and violent enough.

But America would always win! That's the problem, we created football.

OT: I'd say

...Peace?

this

No, America did not invent football, America invented Gridlock yes, but not football.
Technically the country who invented Soccer, invented football, as that's a more international version of football.

The versions of Football i know are, Gridlock, AFL, Rugby and Soccor... antone know any others?

Im ashamed as an American to say this but... WTF is Gridlock?

Gridlock is the International Name for NFL

 

[Mr. Self Destruct]

happiness!

 

[shanyeyasheyeya]

I say we try to bake a huge pie that covers all of Africa and we try to eat it all. Or we could just have all the world leaders have dance offs to decide on important decisions. Then we put it on pay per view and the world would be a better place.

 

[sidexwalk]

I suppose we could somehow destroy the human ego, hence making null any prospect of disagreement whatsoever...I don't know. I would personally like to replace war with the lack of any conflict whatsoever, but that's about as unrealistic a prospect as expecting people to first destroy their own egos.

 

[Inglonias]

Thumb war!
Um....

Yeah... I got nothing else.

 

[Sethzard]

Human extinction, humans can't stop fighting, it is in our nature.

 

[gremily]

Russian roulette with nations leaders. =D

 

[Space Cowgirl]

Dance-offs or a patty-cake championship. Patty-cake would resolve everything.

 

[Mechanix]

War exists because we can't talk things out or negotiate. Oh, I lost that coin flip on who wins that piece of territory? My tanks don't think so.

Nothing replaces brute force.

 

[Twad]

replace war with some online MMOFPS where thousands upon thousand of people (from everywhere on the planet) fight over a massive virtual land, respawn times are very long (24h) , and the victorious team "wins" the debate.