Would this bring World Peace?

Question

Imagine a super intelligent alien race where to invade our planet, say Independence Day style. Now like in the movie we are able to beat them back and save our planet. Now obviously a large portion of the pop will have been killed in the process, but will those remaining find peace? Will the now undeniable knowledge that we are not alone in the universe be enough to bring about peace? Will race, creed, and color all disappear in the new idea that we are all but human and not this evil alien race?

I should have clearified further, the aliens are gone and never to return we are left on our own. so the question is if humans would find peace with one another?

Answer 1

no, because then we would be at war against the aliens. we would still be violent and there would be no peace in our hearts.
maybe not all aliens are evil. we woud be ignorant and close-minded, and "racist" against the aliens...

Answer 2

Maybe there'd be peace for a couple of weeks or a month or maybe even a year. Then humans being human, they'd forget all about the the invasion, the risk to the planet, the aliens and what exists in the rest of the universe. The fighting would begin again because; one wants what the other has, one doesn't like the look of the other one, one thinks their God and their beliefs are the only ones that are true, one feels they are better or more important than all the rest and TA DA - war begins again. There will never be peace on earth unless there is a major evolution in the circuitry of the human brain.

Answer 3

Peace on Earth is a very Utopian idea. The purpose of life, yet unknown, provides a gap for each and every one of us to fill in our existence.
Peace implies we would not fight with one another on the basis of religion, race, color, and so on. First, these boundaries do not disappear upon the arrival and defeat of aliens; they may temporarily subside. Once the war is over, there will be a renaissance when we 'Rise from the Ashes'. There will be a race to understanding and gaining knowledge about the alien technology. Imagine suicide bombers with the ability to teleport! Religious differences will still hold as a lot of humans will credit the victory to their version of God. The convergence of human skin color towards being beige has been predicted, and also makes sense, but this is far in the future.

Humans get bored easily. A peaceful life is akin to boredom. We are animals, and we will compete for our ideas, our possessions, our desires, and our lives.

Answer 4

Why there has been such an idea of evil alien? If there were really hostile super intelligent alien against human race would no longer exist at all. No way to even to think about peace.

Answer 5

Yes. But not by unifying against an alien race. The knowledge that we are not alone and that intersellar travel was not only possible but pratical. We would scatter like a covey of quail out across the stars.

Answer 6

Not at all, because humans are idiots. In fact, I'm sure any knowledge of the alien attack would disappear within a hundred years or two anyway, due to such idiocy and evil.

Answer 7

Ah, I think there are more pressing scenarios actually confronting the human species. To indulge in this fantasy is a distraction. True peace will not come to our species in this world because, at heart, we are desperately greedy.

Answer 8

One thing I feel we need to learn is how to teach. 'Peace' is a learned concept and it needs connection to the word itself. We learn peace as a sensible experience when we return to it. It becomes a concept when that experience is realized with help and used as a metaphor for and with its social expression. We want expression for the positive constituents of our human essence, but the negative is used as political property for public persuasion. Conflict is as much a class struggle, as it is a religious struggle, as it is a property struggle, as it is a spiritual struggle, as it is a political struggle.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc1ba.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc1bb.htm

'Φ 367. NECESSITY is for this new mode of consciousness what in truth self-consciousness finds necessity in its own case to be. In its new attitude self-consciousness regards itself as the necessary element. It knows that it has the universal, the law, immediately within itself, a law which, because of this characteristic of being immediately within consciousness as it is for itself, is called the Law of the Heart. This mode or attitude of consciousness is for itself, qua individual, essential reality as the former mode similarly was; but in the present case it is richer by the characteristic that this self-existence is taken as necessary or universal.'

It is richer because we are rich in knowing that our will to do good as a universal will or would do better than universal revenge.

Answer 9

If the aliens killed all the politicians, terrorists, and greedy businessmen in the world, then sure, we could.

Answer 10

No
The world is better with suffering


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