Is world peace possible?

[RATTER15]

At the end of the day, it isn't just Miss World contestants that want world peace, I imagine we all do.

Is it actually possible?

is it mans nature to war against man?

Have we ever had world peace?

My own views: world peace is totally impossible while we have: Oil and religion to fight over.

[starone]

You have never said truer words ratter. Man (and woman) will always find something to fight about

[woofgang]

there were wars before oil and not about religion. People fight over territory, women, flocks and herd, any kind of wealth or power....

[Count-A-Strong]

Yep, I'd say you just about hit the nail on the head. I would disagree that everyone wants world peace. There are career military people ( you know the type - father and grandpa wer both Colonels in the Guards etc etc - basically public schoolboys who have no business acumen) and arms manufacturers / dealers who would shudder at the thought.

[RATTER15]

Woofgang, of course you are right but I'm looking at a bigger picture,more along the lines of "war and conflict" rather than two guys fighting over some tart in the pub.

territory, wealth and power will in most cases dissolve if we no longer had oil and religion.

I'm not a political animal and I know this could get very political.

[woofgang]

Alexander the great didn't do it for oil or religion, nether did Kublai Khan or the Roman Empire. Wars and conflicts get bigger as people have the technology to travel further and do more damage more easily.

[RATTER15]

I accept what you are saying Woofgang and agree with you but this is a very different day and age, humanity has changed, we war over different things these days, I'm looking more to the future than the past. I think you are also saying that no matter what, we will always find something else to war over.

[woofgang]

Yes Ratter, if all the oil and religion was to suddenly vanish or had never been, there would be loads of other things to fight over

[mccfluffy]

to much money to be made in war, and too stupid Snags arguing over a non existant diety

[TWR]

World peace can definitely be achieved Ratter, it takes a number of people in Government to start a war from each country, round them up put them in a field & shoot the b@sdards that way thousands survive "Simples"

[Dee Sa]

Nostradamus says no, he predicted a world war starting in the Middle East. I wonder if people listened to him in his lifetime ?

[NazNomad]

It's not possible while we exist, which In a realistic time-scale, isn't for much longer.

[woofgang]

"TWR
World peace can definitely be achieved Ratter, it takes a number of people in Government to start a war from each country, round them up put them in a field & shoot the b@sdards that way thousands survive "Simples""

sorry but there would be an endless supply of others to replace them.....

[TWR]

It would be a start Woofgang.