I am saying end war now.

What would happen?

Surely it would be good? Except for the weapon manufacturers.

The world as we know it would collapse. Industries and hegemonies would crumble. There would be a collosal shift in wealth and power. A new moral order would be established to retain the hierarchy that humans seem to adore.

Some food for thought. And reading that again, I confess to being quite cynical this morning!

There would be eventually be overpopulation without war. Man has no natural predators that he hasn't figured out how to wipe out first.

There would be no way to resolve disputes once negotiations failed.

The world would eventually fill up with more and more people who thought they deserved more entitlements.

Human genetics would devolve, because poor and uneducated people would continue to have more children they coudn't afford to raise and are for whatever reason incapable of raising.

War is awful, but it is necessary. Even if it were to end for 100s of years eventuallly their would have to be one for resources.

Originally posted by spellbound
I am saying end war now.

What would happen?

Surely it would be good? Except for the weapon manufacturers.

That would probably cause a war to break out.



You know, as funny or as stupid as that may sound it is probably close to the truth.

After all, arent we fighting for peace right now?

Irony?



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If war was taken out of the equation, we would become a force to contend with. Hopefully colonizing other planets and doing things never thought humanly possible. Great Question. At least I enjoyed it lol...

As long as there are humans, and as long as us human’s have greed/envy there will always be war. If we had peace, eventually someone would consider the rest of us wimpy enough to try to overthrow the system through violence. It’s not necessarily a bad thing either. Most of the advancement we enjoy today came from military applications. It also helps us to remain vigilant in the case of external threat to our planet and existence (invasion, asteroid impact, etc).

Originally posted by spellbound
I am saying end war now.

What would happen?

They already tried that back in 1928. They called it the Kellogg-Briand Pact, or the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War.

The law is still technically in effect as international treaty, if that tells you anything.

If humanity could do this, We would recieve a gift from above for maturing so much as a entire organism.

Should probably start with getting a baby to stop throwing a fit when another baby has it's rattle or toy car. From there you can work up to schoolyard pushing and name calling.

Solve the issues that raise conflict among everyone under the age of 9. then you can go ahead and work on stopping all out 'war' as generic and ambiguous a notion 'war' is.

When something has an infinite number of possible causes like 'war' does standing around and complaining and wishing is about as far as any 'solution' can ever get.

It is not as easy as you have made it out to be. If you are talking about keeping everything the same except for "wars" then there would be no difference really. Wars are caused by religion, ethnic differences, greed, lust for power, control, ideology. If these things still exist there will always be some negative event that would replace "war" as we know it.

Even though it is hypothetical, can you imagine being able to successfully restrain any country, any militia, any force from making war with someone else? It is just so unrealistic because there is so much division. The only way to avoid that would be to literally establish a One World Government. Even then there would be resisters that would cause massive headaches for those in power.

In theory it is a great idea because most people would love their to be no war. The problem is how do you prevent something that has occurred since recorded history has existed?