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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I can do better than that. I am realistic that it will still exist since it is part of the human condition. War will always exist, just like disease.
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War will always exist, eh? Why's that?
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
The best I know that I can do is to try to protect the weaker from being warred upon.
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How would you protect Iraqi farmers from 7 humvees full of 18 year old Americans armed to the teeth?
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
How do we stop war? Well, maybe by making the penalty for war-mongering so severe that none would dare try it. In other words, a real peace backed by threat of real violence.
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Like bombing a weapon factory? I mean what organization, with the ability to punish the most powerful militaries in the world, could do this? The people, I suppose, but that would take organization not seen in a long time. I like that, though. Admittedly, it seems like killing someone for killing, but it's an interesting idea.
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
Or, to eliminate war, you would probably want to eliminate some of the driving factors.
Greed/want - Desperate situations fuel desperate measures. Eliminating poverty would probably help reduce some of the drive for war.
Education/tolerance - educating people and having people being more tolerant of each other would go a long way in reducing the desire to kill each other over arbitrary phenotypical, cultural, and philosophical differences.
Of course there are exceptions so we would need an enforcer/keeper of the peace to ensure no outliers or madmen try to take advantage of a peaceful populace.
And if you had an enforcer, you would then need a balancer so that the enforcer would not corrupt (or corrupt easily).
What or how this enforcer would be, I don't know. I suppose if it were that easy we would be doing it already.
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Bingo. This is about addressing the roots. Like Elphaba said, war doesn't just happen for no reason. There are vast socio-economic reasons. These each need to be addressed seriously.