Video: Is World Peace Possible? Short Answer, Yes!

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Video: Is World Peace Possible? Short Answer, Yes!

2013 Aug 7, 1:44am 866 views 7 comments

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121109-is-world-peace-possible

Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker at Harvard University thinks it is completely conceivable that wars between countries might go the way of slave auctions, debtors’ prisons and other barbaric customs. He argues that while there is plenty of violence around the world, and more ways of killing each other, we have witnessed fewer and fewer wars between countries since 1945.

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freak80 2013 Aug 7, 3:09am

Let's hope so. Especially now that we have nukes.

Vicente 2013 Aug 7, 7:40am

In the VERY long run I see a lot of agression being bred out.

In small town example you get bad actors and the community dialog becomes

"What are we going to do about Tony?"

Tony has been been a bad boy, beating up other kids and stealing their lunch money. The community punishes Tony multiple ways which end up limiting their access to wealth. In the very long run tendency to naked violence is bred out. If this were not the case, we'd all be living like Vikings right now.

And so as personal violence is tamped down, the nationalist war machine has a shrinking base of thugs to fuel the war machine. Well until we start building robots to fight.... oh wait.