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{{a|devil|{{image|World peace|png|It’s a battle.}}}} | {{a|devil|{{image|World peace|png|It’s a battle.}}}}The problem with theories of justice is they don’t bear close examination. Collective ones run into the problem “who gets to decide, and what’s to stop ''them'' tilting the scales, and what of people who legitimately disagree”. Individualistic ones are fine until individuals have to interact with each other — over the course of human history they’ve tended to do that a lot — and they then run into the basic what to do when my expression of my own personal freedom interferes with yours. | ||
These lead to strands of philosophy one may characterise as basically ''Hobbesian'' (pessimistic) or ''[[Adam Smith|Smithian]]'' (optimistic) in grappling with the proposition that there are finite resources, unlimited demands on them, but in any case when gathered together humans are a fundamentally argumentative bunch, and this is a necessary condition of society (Hobbes) and a desirable one (Smith). | |||
It used to be only those contesting beauty pageants who aspired to an end to conflict and peace , love and happiness: nowadays it seems to be a large part of the educated metropolitan elite. | |||
Influencers wring their hands and ask, “What is the biggest impediment to world peace? How can we reach this state? What must we change? | |||
They harvest predictable enough, fit-for-beauty-pageant answers: greed, ego, colonialism, the Great Satan, Putin, men, idiocy, defence companies, toxic ideologies, the military-industrial complex, the lack of respect, the establishment — | |||
But isn’t the answer, ''the hope for something better''? | But isn’t the answer, ''the hope for something better''? | ||
We might not like the idea of conflict, but isn’t | We might not like the idea of conflict in the particular, but in the general disruption is a font of progress. In which case, isn’t the ''absence'' of stimulus for change even ''more'' horrifying? | ||
World peace — ''the total absence of conflict'' — implies a settled ''consensus''. It takes as a given that all mysteries have been resolved or, at any rate, agreed upon, that all possible questions have catalogued, taxonomised and satisfactorily answered, that all [[unknowns]] have been eradicated. World peace implies a ''total homogeneity of need, want and value''. There are no inventions left, no efficiencies to be gained, no services to be improved, no sunlit uplands to move towards. | World peace — ''the total absence of conflict'' — implies a settled ''consensus''. It takes as a given that all mysteries have been resolved or, at any rate, agreed upon, that all possible questions have catalogued, taxonomised and satisfactorily answered, that all [[unknowns]] have been eradicated. World peace implies a ''total homogeneity of need, want and value''. There are no inventions left, no efficiencies to be gained, no services to be improved, no sunlit uplands to move towards. | ||