As long, there are rankings in society, money, and power and human emotions – conflict will never end.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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I don't think anyone's going to miss wars.
Star Wars, Thumb wars, wow, Storage Wars!
Democracies rarely go to war with each other. Add mutual economical dependency to that and you have a strong base to avoid armed conflict. The EU is a good example for that.
Universal basic income, universal food and shelter and education.
Yeah, most wars are about resources so becoming a post-scarcity would go a long way.
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Send everyone in charge to an Enya concert. "We can sail, we can sail, With the Orinoco flow..."
An unfortunate combination of somehow achieving a post-scarcity, non-capitalist society with robust resource and population control.
But people are greedy and want "freedoms" that run counter to this.
If you see war as a struggle to get access to scarce resources and if you notice that currently humankind is depleting most of the available resources then you might come to the conclusion that if in the future we will not need to go to war something terrible must have happened. Are you sure about the future you want?
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Put the ones in charge to the front line.
I think the solution is to have enough renewable energy for all of humanity.
this is a bit grim but global-wide information control that shreds any information which will help the growth of the idea of overly patriotic but less enough to not kill the domestic culture (but i think, not necessarily always telling the truth). that will also promote the sense of global village and transnationalism. and relocate the idea of war to other rivalries like on sports or something, idk.
basically limit the free will without showing it. I can't think if it's gonna happen or this even possible.
Well effectively, it would entail an all-encompassing global spying machine that gathers all data possible, and imprisons anyone who deviates from the expected baseline. (Wouldn’t end well for me either.) You have to remove most individuality to remove reasons for fighting. And even if you imprison 999 false leads to capture just one instigator, that’s the only way to ‘guarantee’ a fairly high level of security.
So what I’d say we need is 1984 or Мы levels of oversight to have any chance of curtailing conflict for good.
EDIT: oh, and re-education. Lots and lots of re-education.
Establish a global trade network in a way that everyone is completely dependent on everyone else.
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Education for everyone globally. War is, like all kinds of violence, an act or reaction of impotence (psychological term/not sexual).
It basically means nobody actually chooses to act violently or start wars. They do it because they believe consciously or subconsciously that they have no other options, because they can't think of any options.
This is always a wrong assumption, because there is always a better option. The difficult part is to getting people to understand their actual options. Education solves this.
Did the last year in Europe fly by you unnoticed?
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Easy enough, we just build a jail so big that we can fit the entire world inside of it, boom no more crime.
It's (theoretically) impossible -- you can't break someone's (ignorant and established) will/ideas/plans with words alone or treats. Most world leaders are megalomaniacs by heart, i.e they won't stop until they are done with what they want.
Put everyone in a Matrix and let the A.I. lead the humanity
i wanna be a coppertop
Put everyone in a time-out until they can play nicely with the other children (because let's face it, a lot of them are acting like children)
Make those who declare war to actually fight the war. Put the two countries president on each side of an arena with some swords to fight to death, the one who lives wins the war. I'd record and pay pee view or something and the money raised would pay for homes for the poor in each country
Make tea
It would take way more but the first step it would be to remove religions. And not only because most are not peaceful in principle but also because some religions see others as a target. Even small difference in beliefs could spark a vicious and long standing conflic, like Catholics Vs protestants.
Post scarcity, de-population, or colonization of new worlds.
Kill every human, or all but one. As long as there’s at least two people, there will be conflict.