Does anyone still believe world peace is possible?

Question

All the powerful peace advocates get killed when they start making sense.

Answer 1

It depends on how you define "world peace". This is what I think is possible:

We can begin to limit the size of wars as long as the US is in charge.

There will come a time when 75% or more countries in the world will be emerging democracies. To survive in an electronic market economy, they have to be. (And the only way to stay out of the electronic market is to deny entry by a nationwide blackout.)

Economies have a way of making countries interdependant, and this is another aspect that prevents wars. North America and Europe are good examples of interdependant economic regions whose nations that have not fired in anger against each other for a very long time.

But when we've eliminated wars between nations, someone will change the definition of world peace to include crime families operating across borders because we'll still have paramilitaries, private militias, non-governmental organizations like Al Qa'ida, etc., international drug rings and human smuggling rings, operating as criminal organizations.

If we can somehow limit their finance, memberships, travel and activity to small pockets, then someone will change the definition again to include local crime. And we'll always have local crime.

Answer 2

Not in our lifetimes. The best people of good will can do is try to rein in the warmakers--and continue to learn more about ourselves and how to live toghether peaceably.

As a historian I see two conflicting trends across time (I'm talking about centuries, here). One is that there is, on the part of most people, a much greater desire to find alternatives to war. The counter trend is that our technology gives us the power to be incredibly more destructive.

Eventually, I think humanity will learn to eliminate war (though that doesn't mean there won't be disputes and problems, only that war as a solution will be eliminated). IF WE SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH. And that is, given our technology, by no means certain. What is certain is that we have become so powerful that huminity will either learn peace--or destroy itself.

Answer 3

Whoever said it was? It's human nature to hate. Tribes were killing each other for no reason other than we wear deer antlers, they wear fish bones. Now we've got money, land, religion, and oil to squabble over. Even if the apocalypse comes we'll still kill each other. Instead then it'll be over good hunting grounds or fertile lands for farming.

There ain't never gonna come a time when separate thcommunities or countries haven't got a reason to kill each other on a massive scale.

I guess world peace will happen when global warming finally flushes the toilet and mankind of forgotten about for another 3 million years in a nice little swirling motion....

Answer 4

What if we had one government for the whole world? Then any wars would be civil wars. The American civil war lasted about 5 years, then we never had another one.

But if we had one government for the whole world, our biggest problem might be how to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship. It would have to have a very strong constitution, with very clear rights, very hard to infringe.

Is peace possible among nations? Who knows what's possible? We can dream on. "To do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

In the hope that there might come a day when there would no longer be any need to "care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan."

Answer 5

We never had world peace, and no i don't believe it will ever be possible. There will always be a case of disagreement and arguements, causes of differences, etc. We are human, we aren't born and bred on 'perfection,' we are born under opinion. Because we have freedom and free will, we won't be able to accomplish world peace. Granted,God hoped we could but knows itll be almost impossible to manage. What keeps us going is the "hope" that someday everything will be peaceful.

Answer 6

No

I believe and have seen us move away from world peace over the 52 years I have been on this earth. With the future I have seen over the years we have become more and more hateful and controlling. All of the great strides in travel, communications, and intelligence we have only become less and less tolerant of others and more and more invasive into others countries and worlds trying to control them.
The saddest part is our hate and invasions of others and their countries is all due to money, power and control and the final outcome is more and more hate is spread through out.

Answer 7

of course it is possible. tru they get killed when they start making sense. this happens when they are very few in numbers. U no, there must be a few million people who want world peace. so imagine what they could do if they all get together. the only problem is that people dont communicate that much.

Answer 8

Define peace, Peace could never be possible if you consider peace to be non violent and non argumentative behavior. Reason being we have opinions as long as we have opinions there will never be peace but the level of violence and they way we deal with our disagreements can be and should be improved. The key is to listen to the other person and not just to your head.

Answer 9

Im afraid that in order for any kind of world peace to happen, there will have to be another world war first and even after that, there will still be the few that will always try to ruin it. Its called the work of the devil and he will always be around as long as this planet floats in space.

Answer 10

I am starting to believe, my friend, that world peace is simply not possible. People will always find something to fight about, whether it be religion, or the color of the stripe on your tube sock (Person 1: It's Peach. Person 2: No, it's Salmon!! Person 1: Die!!!!). I guess we all just have to not worry about such things and work on ourselves. Maybe, then, will we even be able begin thinking about it.