Do you believe that human beings are capable of creating and sustaining world peace?

Similar questions: human beings capable creating sustaining world peace.

Individually, yes. As a species, no. This reminds me of a statement I heard (I can’t quite remember where) that goes something like this: "The individual is smart.

People are stupid. " There’s something about the crowd dynamic that oftentimes overrides the individual will. The mob mentality works on this premise.

The average person who never breaks a law can be swept up in something totally chaotic and destructive, without even quite knowing or understanding why. Individually, we may wish for world peace and make daily decisions to promote this idea. However, getting a group of people together with the consistency in decision-making necessary to make this an ongoing reality is exponentially challenging, to say the least.

Making world peace a reality would demand a very high standard of conscious behavior by multitudes of people towards a singular goal. We celebrate diversity in human beings, but this diversity also gives birth to disagreement and condemnation. Too often, discourse and debate disintegrate into personal attacks and emotional judgments.

We can’t seem to avoid this all-too-common event even here in the microcosm of Askville. To think of it happening on a world scale is just too far-fetched for me to believe. Also, as much as we would like to believe that we are all so evolved and intellectually above it all, we cannot separate from our more basic, animal nature.

Fundamentally, it is still about survival, and on some level and at some point, this struggle will erupt into conflict. It’s inevitable. It has been this way throughout the history of mankind.To believe that everyone on earth will be able to override this basic naturalistic tendency and always choose for the higher good is, I believe, wishful (or delusional) thinking.

The value of world peace is based in its worth as an ideal, not reality. It is an ideal worth striving for.An individual may strive to be the best person he or she can possibly be, but knows that personal perfection is unattainable. Striving for world peace will will make us more conscientious individuals, which in turn will raise the collective good of the planet.

But as a reality, world peace is unattainable. Sources: My opinion based on personal observation, current events, and history .

Not yet, maybe someday. I believe it may eventually happen, but speaking as someone who has been flipped off by someone driving a car with a "give peace a chance" bumper sticker, I was going the speed limit like some kind of jerk, it will be awhile. If some great spiritual leader came and gave us all a collective smack on the head it could happen sooner but left to our of devices ...? I think we will solve hunger and what to do with our natural resources before theres world peace..

Story shows it's beyond us On a theoretical level, of course we could all just get along and be nice to each other and be happy .... However, we are humans not angles and just like there is love and trust there is hate and fear. We could work to change toward a more ideal society. We could work to form a society that is more just, more accepting, more tolerant and more forgiving.

Western societies today have made huge leaps in the last few centuries to become such societies. But, as we are humans - no more and no less, perfection does not suit us. Despite all efforts made we may never root out all hate, fear and evil.It's doesn't mean that we would wake up one morning and the world would be a perfect place.

But It's doesn't mean we should stop even for a second in our attempts to make it so. Sources: My eternal optimism .

The answer is obvious from an examination of world history. The human world has never been a peaceful place. Beginning with the very first family, Adam and Eve and their two sons, we find that Cain killed Abel.

Recorded history is a continuous story of war and conquest, with few and sporadic periods of peace. The anger, pride and desire for power that spring from the human breast are the causes of war and strife. From the Christian perspective, these are part of man’s fallen nature.

Only a God initiated process of regeneration in each human heart can undo these warlike tendencies. At one time there was something similar to World Peace. It was called by history the Pax Romana (Roman Peace), when Rome was at the height of its power and able to impose its will and its law on the Mediterranean world.

There were still numerous border wars, but large parts of the Roman Empire were able to live for long periods free from overt warfare. This was at the cost of heavy taxes and an Emperor who claimed to be a god on earth. Other ancient empires have achieved similar effects.So I would say that today we could have a simulacrum of world peace if we had a world government (which is in progress).

But again, it would be at the cost of freedom and prosperity for the average person. In order to enforce "world peace" on a fallen mankind, this world government would need or want total power over all things.In the end, I believe the only God (not man) can create true world peace without destroying liberty, and He will do so with Jesus as King. See Psalm 2.

Or as Isaiah put it, "s name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace" .

These days, it's way too much to hope for... You see what happened before WW1, all those countries signed treaties with each other. Someone's going to pick a fight and something's going to go wrong... Most of all, we go to war for recourses - most are pretty scarce, and when one country is in short supply and the country who has it doesn't want to share (think oil crisis in Iraq) the other country will want to get the recourse any way possible. The best way to do that is with war.

Also, if you wanted world peace where everyone had equal pay, then you could think of Communism. When Stalin brought Communism to Russia, he gave everyone the idea of a classless society with equal wages. But while it looked good on paper, Russia created terrible products because they'd all get the same money anyway.

People need inscentive to do work to get a better pay. If we all were paid $5,000 a week and the garbage people were paid 5,000 a week regardless, then we may not do our jobs well because we're always promised that cash no matter what. If the garbage people were paid 5,000, but we were paid 5,000 that could go up depending on our job, we have inscentive to achieve a higher paycheck.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.