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27 Jan 2010, 6:45 pm

If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?


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27 Jan 2010, 7:29 pm

I would ban sex and any forms of human reproduction.


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27 Jan 2010, 7:59 pm

Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?


We each have a different concept of how we would like to be treated.



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27 Jan 2010, 8:08 pm

Rules don't matter as much as enforcement.



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27 Jan 2010, 8:09 pm

Sand wrote:
Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?


We each have a different concept of how we would like to be treated.


Since we can't possibly know how everyone would really like to be treated, it's a safe bet that our conscience would be clearer if we treated everyone as best as we know how to.


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27 Jan 2010, 8:19 pm

Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?

Rule 1 - Don't have wars.
I don't see where this is going.



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27 Jan 2010, 8:25 pm

Asmodeus wrote:
Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?

Rule 1 - Don't have wars.
I don't see where this is going.


War is a complicated issue and maybe it is a necessary evil if individuals don't have peaceful intentions in all that they do. My question is how can we create peace on earth if we don't follow our own rule that could achieve it. AG says we need enforcement, but that doesn't seem to create peace, based on all of history. Civilizations have always had rules and always had wars.


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27 Jan 2010, 8:30 pm

It's difficult for people to understand each other even when speaking the same language. As long as there are people there will be wars.



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27 Jan 2010, 8:46 pm

There's a little known movie called Equilibrium? You'd need Gammaton Clerics or simply just have Orwell's 1984 come true - global totalitarian state.


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27 Jan 2010, 8:58 pm

Magnus wrote:
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Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be? Do you follow that rule?

My rule:

Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Do I follow it? Most of the time I do, but not always. How can I abide by this rule more?

Rule 1 - Don't have wars.
I don't see where this is going.


War is a complicated issue and maybe it is a necessary evil if individuals don't have peaceful intentions in all that they do. My question is how can we create peace on earth if we don't follow our own rule that could achieve it. AG says we need enforcement, but that doesn't seem to create peace, based on all of history. Civilizations have always had rules and always had wars.

Did you consider that war could be a necessary evil? A lot of the wars and conquests in history have brought benefits in the long run; technology, culture, forms of government etc.
Those that make the wars make the rules.



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27 Jan 2010, 9:09 pm

Magnus wrote:
If you could install one rule that could help to end wars and create peace, what would that rule be?


One would not be enough, and here is why:

Sand wrote:
We each have a different concept of how we would like to be treated.


So, there has to be a common standard, and that is why the rule you have mentioned is actually the second of two ... but I will leave that matter for another day!


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27 Jan 2010, 9:16 pm

Well, since I know there is a generally heavy anti-gun sentiment on Wrong Planet, how about this:

"No military is allowed to have weapons, nor police, nor law abiding citizens."



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27 Jan 2010, 9:32 pm

Ooh, I know a realistic law to do this!

Have a law that removes the term "war" from all dictionaries, and that also defines peace as "the current state of world affairs".

And then BOOM! It is done! Very little enforcement will be needed as well, which makes this like double awesome!



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27 Jan 2010, 9:36 pm

:x



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27 Jan 2010, 9:39 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Ooh, I know a realistic law to do this!

Have a law that removes the term "war" from all dictionaries, and that also defines peace as "the current state of world affairs".

And then BOOM! It is done! Very little enforcement will be needed as well, which makes this like double awesome!

Redefine 'War' as a deity that exists outside of space and time that created all of the universe - at that rate we could go on debating whether or not it exists or ever did exist. War being reported on the news after that would be regarding immaculate visions of war at small towns around the Spanish countryside (war would even be hope inspiring!).


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28 Jan 2010, 2:39 am

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Treat others the way you would want to be treated.


Kant has been around for a couple hundred years know, if it was simply a matter of adjusting your ethical and moral stance then we wouldn't have had every war from the Napoleonic through the World wars upto the Afghan and Iraq wars of the last decade. Wars don't take place because of poor morals - they help, but they're not the primary cause.