War has settled plenty of issues. Just ask King George III or Jefferson Davis. War pretty clearly settled the issue of whether the American colonies were or were not part of the British Empire, or whether the South could or could not be its own nation.
Congradulations world leaders. You have destroyed Trust. I don't know if there was ever that much trustworthiness to begin with. They may have been better in the past at tricking their people into believing them, but they're the same corrupt self-serving people they've always been.
I still insist that it doesn't have to be. Remember, I come from a Mennonite background. We're pacifists, and would rather die than kill another human being. We see war as being against God. It's simply not right.
I'm just remembering way way back, with the Greeks and such. Yes, they may have been better at tricky people into believing them, but the penalties were harsher. Nowadays they can buy their way out of punishment.
Oh, I certainly agree that war is wrong, but to say it never settles anything is incorrect. It often HAS settled issues. Unfortunately, humanity as a whole is all too willing to resort to violence than to peaceful debate. In fact, historically, very FEW issues were ever settled without violence on both sides. Yes, there have been some, especially in the 20th century, such as Gandhi and MLK, neither of whose followers resorted to violence, though they did have violence inflicted upon them by their opponents. But, sadly, they're the exception
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sure sure, it solves things. and leaves a lot of mourning people behind.
okay, I'll admit I'm weak in the history department. I'm trying to find the most non-corruptable democratic system. I'm sure that at one point, a system actually worked for a little while. I'm not big into politics and whatnot. I'm mostly ranting, I'm realizing. I do that every once in a while.
I prepose that the world leaders do something like what they do when they need a new Pope; get the leaders together in one room, and then not let them out until they ALL can agree to a solution.
Hmm. While it wouldn't actually accomplish its primary purpose, I could really get behind never having to hear from certain people ever again. I could get behind this, I think...
Unfortunately, confined gatherings like choosing the pope or being part of a jury only really work when there's an enforcement mechanism available to keep people from either screwing up the process or just walking out and doing things their own way.
It works sometimes on a small scale. Alas, the world is too big for that to ever work, I fear. Though, I do think that if resources weren't as much an issue, if the world's population was much smaller and ecologically-friendly technologies were in use, there'd be no need to worry about it.
Eh. The world's population was once much smaller, and ecologically friendly technologies were in use, and resources weren't as much an issue; we still ended up as we are.
The world's population was smaller when we had less capacity to feed ourselves. Resources have nearly ALWAYS been an issue in human history. Except for a few cases where epidemics wiped out large numbers of people, or a group of people arrived at a new, uninhabited, territory, people have always been fighting for territory for, at the very least, food, whether new hunting grounds or new farmland. When Europeans first arrived in the Americas and brought new diseases, wiping out large numbers of Native Americans, war nearly disappeared because, all of a sudden, the population was well below the local carrying capacity. They didn't need to kill other tribes for their land
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Congradulations world leaders. You have destroyed Trust. I don't know if there was ever that much trustworthiness to begin with. They may have been better in the past at tricking their people into believing them, but they're the same corrupt self-serving people they've always been.
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I'm just remembering way way back, with the Greeks and such. Yes, they may have been better at tricky people into believing them, but the penalties were harsher. Nowadays they can buy their way out of punishment.
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okay, I'll admit I'm weak in the history department. I'm trying to find the most non-corruptable democratic system. I'm sure that at one point, a system actually worked for a little while. I'm not big into politics and whatnot.
I'm mostly ranting, I'm realizing. I do that every once in a while.
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Hmm. While it wouldn't actually accomplish its primary purpose, I could really get behind never having to hear from certain people ever again. I could get behind this, I think...
Unfortunately, confined gatherings like choosing the pope or being part of a jury only really work when there's an enforcement mechanism available to keep people from either screwing up the process or just walking out and doing things their own way.
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