Runner it is markst to say what you said in your first post, what world do you live in.

Multiple studies over the past 20 years have shown that we in fact live in the most peaceful period in human history. The percentage of people who die in wars in the last 50 years is the lowest ever.

So how do we become even more peaceful? Continue doing what we've been doing for the past half-century:

More prosperity
More equality
Less poverty
More democracy
More international trade
More 'mutually assured destruction'
Fewer nations ruled by millenarian ideology

I know a lot of this will be counter-intuitive for many, but that is indeed the way to go. Whatismore, this downward trend in the levels of violent deaths has been occurring basically since humans gave up hunter-gather society and became farmers. Again, counter-intuitive for many.

Two more idiotic whines this morning from the people out to ensure that the world will never be more peaceful are the calls from people purporting to support blackfellas - Coon cheese is apparently racist, even though it was named after the an actual Dr. Coon, and the Colonial Brewery is said to be rubbing certain people's faces in the fact of 200 years of colonialism in Australia. Try working on the peace problem while such lunatics are mouthing off!

Big Nana,

Yes, there are probably no two people on earth who agree totally with one another, certainly not here ol OLO. That's how it is, and that's how it's going to be forever.

As long as people treat each other civilly, and tolerate differences of opinion, then there's a chance that we can all get along - either that, or keep away from each other. But trying to shoehorn people's views according to some tightly approved script will never work.

Once we can get that through our heads, and come to advocate a toleration of diversity of views, we can maybe get on the road towards civility.

It might pay to revisit Isaiah Berlin's notions of positive and negative liberty: 'positive liberty' leads on, in my view, through socialism, to fascism. 'Negative liberty' leads, through disagreement and conflict, to arm's length respect for each other's views - i.e. everybody should have the same rights and freedoms, provided they do no harm to anybody. Karl Popper touched on a similar distinction in his work on Closed and Open Societies. Well worth reading up on.

Joe

three white men stabbed to death in England by muslim in unprovoked attack. Nothing new and almost not making the news these days. London muslim mayor basically said you just need to live with it. One black man killed by cops in US and regressive media promote violence and push white guilt for weeks. Plane flies over English football game saying white lives matter. Media again goes ballistic , not at the muslim murderer but at those who claimed white lives matters. Cowards at the football club apologise. No apologise from muslims. Shows you why we won't be having peace anytime soon with secular Marxist creating such a toxic environment.

Talking of peace....

With just a few months to go, Trump may well be the first president since Eisenhower to go a full term without starting a new war or invading another country.

Not bad for a warmonger!!