is world peace possible?

[Deleted]

Nope. Not possible.

Humans are VERY easy to brain wash. Whether it's religion, political views or ways of life, no matter how retarded or ridiculous your ideas are, if you have the charisma and understand human psychology, you can brain wash people into thinking the same.

All it takes is some crazy guy with these traits and a new cult is born, dividing mankind even further.

[Narwhalosh Whalescream]

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Impossibru, not without uniting all religons or something

[DEATHETERNAL]

If people in general would stop being morons, sure. That being said, its not possible for people in general to stop being morons, so no. World peace will not occur until humanity passes from this earth.

[Zoranon]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - As stated by Plato all the way back in Ancient Greece and quite frankly, the situation is still the same.

Until human nature changes fundamentally, there will be strife, the best we can hope for it to keep said conflict out of the western world.

[prwraith]

Once all this crap people call culture is thrown out yes. Also it's pretty readily apparent that the religions of the world can not coexist in which case if you really want world peace. The culture superiority belief and the idea of religion need to be removed.

Imo for world peace you need.

1. galactic basic ie Universal language not 500 different ones for no reason. It's ridiculous we haven't adopted a global language I don't even care if it's not English, just pick one.
2. Surplus of supplies.
3. Removal of monetary gain. (one of my favorite star trek lines, essentially saying,
we no longer compete for money, we go through life to better ourselves as individuals and as a species

[Ariselia]

Interestingly, today on BBC.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2012...peace-possible

[Razorice]

Don't think it's possible. There's always going to be a retard who wants war.

[Deleted]

The only way to unite humanity would be through war - it'd require a peerless leader without equal, and a military force beyond reckoning.

Is that going to happen anytime soon? Nope.

Sometimes i wish we could unite and go beyond earth as a united species - but peoples concerns are still down to earth about money and the like.

[Ardourdan]

Yes, but it would require a common enemy and a situation so extremely perilous as to ensure our focus is purely on the maintaining of the species.

That said, there would more than likely be some individuals who still hold hatred for others.

[Stir]

This is a stupid comment. You mention one or two years and it covers the history of war. Let me educate you just a little bit over some wars that weren't because of religion

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not entirely convinced by many of your examples:

3.)The French Revolution

A large part of this was the rise against a very religious ideal that God had chosen the rulers of the land. The belief that the caste of Nobility was chosen by God, and the rejection of this idea, is very much a religious thing.

6.)The Wars to create and preserve the British Empire (Boer War, Irish Revolution, and the Great Game with Russia would all be examples)

Especially the Irish revolution was very much involved with religion. The whole 'Protestants versus Catholics' is still a pretty big thing in Northern Ireland because of it.

14.)World War II

World War II is the modern epitome of a religious war. Hitler believed himself to be chosen by no other than God himself to do what he did, to create a Holy Empire. He wrote about how, during the first world war, God spoke to him of the divine visions. He wrote how Jesus was born from a Roman's loins, he wrote about how he, himself, was comparable to Jesus in most any way, really. He believed himself to be a Messiah.

15.)The Chinese Revolution

They overthrew a God. They waged war against a God. It was all about religion.

16.)The Cold War, including but not limited to the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the American intervention in Grenada, and the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan

Actually, religion played a pretty large part in that as well. It is the Cold War that sprouted things like 'One Nation under God.' Like praying to a flag. Like 'God is with us' on coins. If you want to know why so many refer to the United States as 'a Christian country,' then you need to look no further than the Cold War.

The Breakup of Yugoslavia (beginning with Slovenia)

This was one of the major clashes between Islam and Christianity in recent history. It was tragic, painful, and very heavily soaked in religion.

Don't forget that religion is a banner to people. It is something people flock to when threatened. It is nigh impossible to keep religion out of war because war is, at its very core, incredibly scary. And people who are in a situation of war tend to like to think that they'll be protected by a deity. That makes religion a pretty big thing in many wars.

[Hyve]

Theoretically; Yes

Realistically; No

Humans are programmed at our base values to seek to improve ourselves, strive for more, and to be the best we can be. A lot of social conditioning has removed some of those traits, but it is far to ingrained in our species to remove it entirely.

Because of that drive, someone somewhere is going to get in your way. While most of the time, we can resolve this with simple etiquette, such as having a debate, talking the matters through, or just ignoring each other, there will always be a few people who will take a more extreme approach.

As long as we have differing nationalities, personalities, cultures, skin colours and other definitive traits, there will never be world peace.

Interestingly, today on BBC.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2012...peace-possible

Off-Topic: British Broadcasting Company, and I get the message: "You can't view this in the U.K." *facepalm*

[Deleted]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - As stated by Plato all the way back in Ancient Greece and quite frankly, the situation is still the same.

Until human nature changes fundamentally, there will be strife, the best we can hope for it to keep said conflict out of the western world.

In western and northern Europe, and in Japan, a whole generation of people has been born and died without seeing war exhaust/ravage their homelands. In north America, almost 3 generations have been born and died without seeing their land becoming a battlefield, and 1 generation without being involved in a truly exhausting war. China has been at peace for 60 years. India, 40 years. Indonesia 50. Southern America has not seen their formerly regular bloody coups in decades. These areas hold the majority of the Earth population. Most of the humans alive have never seen war in their homeland. Humans can exist in peace quite perfectly.

If you told that to Plato, he would not believe you. Plato was just a philosopher, he was not god, nor the reservoir of knowledge about human nature.

[Hyve]

In western and northern Europe, and in Japan, a whole generation of people has been born and died without seeing war exhaust/ravage their homelands.

Just because it hasn't ravaged their homeland, doesn't mean it still isn't war ... There is always a war going on, and a large part of Europe is almost always involved.

[yetgdhfgh]

When we can evolve as a species to a point that our base instincts no longer rule us then yes its a distinct possiblilty

But untill then we will carry on being greedy, territorial, Frightened animals that cant live together

[Deleted]

No. I'm not sure it's desireable either.

[zephid]

In theory? Of course it is.

In reality? No, there will always be conflicts between different groups.

[Deleted]

Just because it hasn't ravaged their homeland, doesn't mean it still isn't war ... There is always a war going on, and a large part of Europe is almost always involved.

The fact that you see your land become a battleground affects people into accepting it as part of life. When war becomes invisible, it also becomes less acceptable.
Look at the Americans: it's true the government is a bit war-happy, in comparison with the European countries. But how long does the American people support the war actions? People are enthusiastic at first, but as soon as the first bodies return to America, and the first images of their own soldiers' brutality make it to the media, the enthusiasm vanishes. Soon it turns into hostility and complains about the cost. Why? because they have never seen their own people, their own neighbours, suffer like that, and they don't think (justly) that it's worth it.

People who have lived at peace all their lives have very little tolerance for war, for inflicting war on others. It's not part of our reality, and when confronted with what war really is, outside movies and videogames, we reject it. War weariness is much higher in countries than have not seen war in their territory than in countries that have been ravaged by war for years.
Peace breeds peace, same as war breeds war.

[Deleted]

among humans ? no hope, maybe when we are all dead.