Sometimes it IS the Obvious.

[forsyth]

Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars? an article from Discover a few months back. The ingredients people figure will end war are... well, pretty much what you'd expect. Food, dignity, land, etc... Take away the most common reasons people fight, and guess what, most people won't. And if most people aren't fighting, then you don't have war, you have crime. At worst.

And y'know, even if providing for everyone doesn't end war completely, it'd have plenty of other benefits, so why not try it?

Comments

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

I don't think a completely warless utopia can exist. I think aggression between nations can be abetted or perhaps even eliminated, that people can find higher levels of comfort by being provided for with the necessities, ect.

But there will still be those few nut jobs on the individual level who will take out their aggression on others. Full scale war can probably be done away with, but not the war on crime. And I think in order for a warless world to become possible, the human population would need to significantly reduce in size, while retaining enough remnants to live comfortably off of what was left behind by the others.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Of course there'll be some nut jobs. But that's not WAR. Violence of some kind or another will probably be around, but that's different than war. And even that can be less common than it is. War and violence have gone down in a lot of ways already.