Arc wrote:
Never fear - typo.
On second thought, I would say that it is BOTH but more the latter.
I wasn't offended
I thought it was funny, kind of like how sometimes you misspell my name with a "C", instead of a "K".
Can there actually BE world peace, Erik, if there is still suffering in the world and inequality?
The type of world-peace I'm referring to is when all people come together, work together, and end wars.
Instead of spending so much money on wars, people would focus on ending starvation and poverty.
In a world of peace, there could still be suffering. Accidents would still occur and so on, but major suffering,
such as starvation and war, would come to and end.
Could lead to despotism, no?
Would we lose our own individual sense of identity and cultures with a one-world government?
We would simply be so many peas in a pod or sardines in a sardine can.
Are you up for that?
It could lead to despotism, but that still occurs today, without a one world government.
No, the eradication of individuality and uniqueness would not happen with the world government I have in mind.
How do we achieve your heart's desire then -- world peace?
The one world government would be the way to go.
It's still achievable without it, but people, in mass numbers, would have to have change.
Sometimes but do they achieve more than the practical wise ideal?
But you're right too. I do think though that the ideal has to be grounded in more than a romantic idealism.
It has to be able to spur the human[s] on to change.
The practical ideal is, usually, more achievable; but the romantic one, when successful, is infinitely better.
How will we recognize this?
IQ tests, enhanced technology, better societies, etc.
What if that world peace was forced on us?
That would be a bit ironic, no?
Do you think that there is another way to express what you mean above?
Not really, no
Now that would be enslavement - not necessarily insincere. Insincere to me implies a choice.
People's good deeds would be insincere, because they would be doing them out of fear of punishment.
A genuine good deed would be done from the heart, without coercion.