World Peace is achieveable

Great argument, honestly. You put a good point saying that it'd be hard getting 7 billion people to become sane. But, with the right men/women working for it, you can. I talked about war in my last debate, and I will put some war points in here once again. Unesco"s preamble starts with the words: Since war begin in the minds of men it is in the minds of mean that the defenses of peace must be constructed. This would mean that we should develop a kind of educational program that would make it possible for a new generation to wage peace among themselves instead of war. Although this is theoretically sound, in practice we need to do a lot of groundwork if we were to visualize a 21st century for our children and grandchildren which is characterized by peace. To this end we need to find out, in the first place, what has caused so many wars over the centuries up to the present time. Among several possible reasons we find the following: 1. Politics: The formation of various political parties led to a number of wars unnecessarily because each of such parties tried to impose its political philosophy over the rest of the population. 2. Religion: In spite of the fat that religion in itself is a very peaceful institution, yet various religions found it appropriate to wage wars against their neighbor in the name of God. 3. Communism: This type of ideology visualized people living together as members of the same family where everything is shared with each other. In practice, communism has deprived people of their basic human rights. 5. Capitalism: This system advocates the never-ending building of a capital in a way that people never feel satisfied because they always yearn for more and more. This often leads to greed which tends to disregard other"s people need. 6. Exploitation: One of the evils of colonialism has been the exploitation of people"s resources. This element nowadays is still among us under various guises. It explains why it is said that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. 7. Power-Abuse: The concept of power is frequently rendered as an opportunity to provide excellent services to people everywhere. However, when power is abused, people are forced to rebel and a war generally takes place. 8. Jealousy: When people see other in a more privileged position, instead of thanking God for being so kind to them, they get annoyed instead and in a number of instances figure out a way to destroy people"s goods. 9. Ethnicity: People tend to make such a big dean to one"s ethnic background that they find themselves often divided and all of a sudden involved unnecessarily in tribal conflicts. This type of conflict is also known as racism. 10. Organized Crime: Many refer to this type of crime simply by the word "mafia." Here people are blackmailed and threatened so as to comply to anything the mafia gang proposes. As a result, conflicts are bound to follow. In addition to the above source, there are many numerous others which instigate tension among human beings to the point of war. Of course, agencies such as the weapons industrial complex, will not hesitate to take the advantage of every situation conceivable to provide weapons of destruction to everyone who is willing to pay the right price. In fact, this agency has become one of the most lucrative business in the world. It is highly appropriate here to bring into mind the words of retired commanders of the United States military at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC. They stressed that the weapons industrial complex, headed by the United States, is not interested in the security of the nation but merely in making profit. This will enable us to understand why such industry sells continuously its destructive product to all the nations of the world, friends, and foes alike. In fact, the weapons industrial complex has become the number one enemy of our entire earthly society. In fact, world peace will be guaranteed as place in history during the 21st century and beyond if we were to find a way to put this wicked industry out of business. World peace in the 21st century is feasible and attainable. However, we have to work at it by taking several steps simultaneously, the sooner the better. Needless to say, everyone must try to make contribution to this end. As we have already seen, the weapons industrial complex has become our greatest enemy to world peace. It needs to be thoroughly dismantled and put totally out of business, even it were to take us longer than expected. Collapse of the Weapon Industry In spite of the fact that the weapons industrial complex has become a gigantic corporation which controls practically the government of every nation, including the United States, we could always find a way to bring it to a state of total collapse, no matter how long it will take. Here are some steps which may start taking to put the weapons industrial complex out of business. We could ban open carry weapons.