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flashingathena t1_j6l868z wrote

Reply to World peace is absolutely achievable. by [deleted]

Agreed. There are so many things we're capable of doing in terms of diplomacy and cooperation but people give up before even trying or even thinking about trying.

  1. The ICC (Intl Criminal Court, which prosecutes crimes against humanity and war crimes, is a great tool for peace, and that's the spirit in which it was conceived. If the major world powers (namely the U.S., China, and Russia) recognized its jurisdiction, we could go after bad individuals and groups instead of going to war with entire countries.

  2. The U.N. was also created for the primary purpose of keeping peace, intervening in conflicts, and finding diplomatic solutions to problems. But the Security Council is always deadlocked and can hardly take action on any intl conflict because, again, the world powers who are the controlling, permanent members (the U.S., China, Russia, plus the U.K. and France) each have veto power and block any resolution the "opposing side" (Russia-China vs. U.S.-U.K. typically) suggests. It's stopped the U.N. from intervening in Syria and Ukraine, most recently.

  3. We can cooperate on environmental issues and resources NOW instead of waiting until there's a conflict and going to war. We can plan and take action together. There's so much potential here for this sort of "preemptive cooperation" A term I made up, I think?? And I don't even care if a think tank steals it! I flatter myself but anyway, this isn't actually my original idea but the idea of a guy, an Iraqi environmental engineer whose name escapes me, who brought the Iraqi marshes back from the brink of extinction.

  • One problem is, peace is boring.
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SpecialistAd5537 t1_j6l6g48 wrote

Reply to World peace is absolutely achievable. by [deleted]

I disagree, world peace is impossible because we have set our entire society around it not being viable. Say tomorrow world peace was achieved, million of people from lawyers, and police, to doctors and physicians would be out of work. Nevermind the sporting industry. If you mean peace as in no major conflict between nations, then I'd change my position.

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wut3va t1_j6l5nc1 wrote

Reply to comment by Jedlord in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

It's minimally social. A few lines of text is no substitute for sharing the five senses with other human beings. In person, you can dance, drink, kiss, laugh, eat, talk, etc. Body language, tone, touch, even smell, are all forms of nonverbal communication that enriches the human experience in ways that you can't even describe if you don't experience it for yourself. Social media is being social, but distilled to its absolute weakest form.

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Berry_Juice1 t1_j6l5dys wrote

Reply to comment by Jedlord in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

sure it's social, but it's also very anti-social, which is what people probably mean here

it's kind of nit-picking to say "you're technically socializing" when the point that it's driving people apart is valid, but you are technically right so have a cookie lol

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