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Violence will never bring peace
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Violence will never bring peace

Is that right or is it just me?

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RE: Violence will never bring peace

Self-defense.

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Yeah Unschool nailed it.

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RE: Violence will never bring peace

(10-19-2011 05:18 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Self-defence.

At times this works. At times it pisses off the perpetrator more.
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RE: Violence will never bring peace

Violence will never bring peace. Self-defence can bring on an absence of violence, but that doesn't necessarily equate to peace. Though I guess it depends on your definition of peace... if it's just a lack of fighting, then sure, that works. If it's a lack of a desire to fight, then self-defence doesn't quite cut it...

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(10-19-2011 05:40 AM)Spiritus_Raptor Wrote:  
(10-19-2011 05:18 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Self-defence.

At times this works. At times it pisses off the perpetrator more.

Either way you're gonna get beat... or your gonna watch someone you know get beat. I prefer to take my chances.

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World Peace: A totalitarian dictator takes over the world and scraps it of any and all weapons and hires enough police to ensure no one fights anyone. Fuck yeah.

I don't think peace is really achievable, unless through some kind of ultimately agreed upon collective knowledge that we don't have yet. And even then, not everyone will agree...

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Quote:World Peace: A totalitarian dictator takes over the world and scraps it of any and all weapons and hires enough police to ensure no one fights anyone. Fuck yeah.
Well... that's kinda one way of doing it. But if he's really that totalitarian, he'll probably piss a lot of people off... and thus, they will want to fight, even if all the police make it really hard.

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That's always true, I suppose.

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(10-19-2011 06:10 AM)Absentinsomniac Wrote:  World Peace: A totalitarian dictator takes over the world and scraps it of any and all weapons and hires enough police to ensure no one fights anyone. Fuck yeah.

I don't think peace is really achievable, unless through some kind of ultimately agreed upon collective knowledge that we don't have yet. And even then, not everyone will agree...

Genetic mutations that destroy the aggressive traits in humanity, A large number of humanity is killed off and a select number is ruled by dictator in a neutral society that caters to citizenship, All life on earth is killed.

Yeah not liking most of em.

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Yeah, same. Unless of course we can all download ourselves into a massive computer. (And then, hopefully, the dick who programmed it didn't put in mind control as a function.)

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RE: Violence will never bring peace

Oh, yeah, sure.


Y'know, except for all those wars that brought peace. We had a really large one a while back. It was W-... W-... Wor-...

Worl-...

Word's that I can't.

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Yeah, that too. (A reasonable amount of peace, anyways.)

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Temporary peace, sure... until the next fucktard comes along and pisses a few countries off.

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(10-19-2011 07:11 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Temporary peace, sure... until the next fucktard comes along and pisses a few countries off.

Or the corporations get the countries to do their dirty work for them..

*Cough* iraq *cough*

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(10-19-2011 06:31 AM)HeartofShadows Wrote:  
(10-19-2011 06:10 AM)Absentinsomniac Wrote:  World Peace: A totalitarian dictator takes over the world and scraps it of any and all weapons and hires enough police to ensure no one fights anyone. Fuck yeah.

I don't think peace is really achievable, unless through some kind of ultimately agreed upon collective knowledge that we don't have yet. And even then, not everyone will agree...

Genetic mutations that destroy the aggressive traits in humanity, A large number of humanity is killed off and a select number is ruled by dictator in a neutral society that caters to citizenship, All life on earth is killed.

Yeah not liking most of em.

Yeah......... Maybe we are better off without world peace.

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Maybe one day aggression will be bred out of existence and we will only have inborn "self-defense" mechanisms. I do think we could have an incredibly more peaceful and happy world than we do now at our current evolutionary level but absolutely not 100% peace.

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(10-19-2011 12:29 PM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Maybe one day aggression will be bred out of existence and we will only have inborn "self-defense" mechanisms. I do think we could have an incredibly more peaceful and happy world than we do now at out current evolutionary level but absolutely not 100% peace.

True story:

I was talking to some marine or whatever and he told me about this time he was doing some humanitarian assistance mission in Africa or whatever. He said he threw one last piece of bread out of the truck while they were driving. He saw a guy pick it up, then some crazed starving kid ran up behind the guy, chopped his head in half with a machete, and ate the bloody piece of bread.

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(10-19-2011 12:33 PM)Absentinsomniac Wrote:  
(10-19-2011 12:29 PM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Maybe one day aggression will be bred out of existence and we will only have inborn "self-defense" mechanisms. I do think we could have an incredibly more peaceful and happy world than we do now at out current evolutionary level but absolutely not 100% peace.

True story:

I was talking to some marine or whatever and he told me about this time he was doing some humanitarian assistance mission in Africa or whatever. He said he threw one last piece of bread out of the truck while they were driving. He saw a guy pick it up, then some crazed starving kid ran up behind the guy, chopped his head in half with a machete, and ate the bloody piece of bread.

Point being, how the fuck do you breed away aggression?

Wow I used a poor fucking choice of words. Especially considering there is a lot of nurture regarding how we turn out. What the fuck was I thinking? lol

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RE: Violence will never bring peace

(10-19-2011 12:33 PM)Absentinsomniac Wrote:  True story:

I was talking to some marine or whatever and he told me about this time he was doing some humanitarian assistance mission in Africa or whatever. He said he threw one last piece of bread out of the truck while they were driving. He saw a guy pick it up, then some crazed starving kid ran up behind the guy, chopped his head in half with a machete, and ate the bloody piece of bread.

Point being, how the fuck do you breed away aggression?

Holy shit that would be an awesome video to put on the internet.
Least it shows an adult could be beaten by a kid.

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