Penn & Teller: The Secret of World Peace

Penn & Teller reveal their secret for World Peace. Do you agree?

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• peace
• world peace
• trade
• war
• penn teller
• bullshit!

[jcpowpow]

whole episode?

please

[rintakumpu]

Sorry, don't want to violate copyrights here. Guess someone has already posted it elsewhere, do some searching.

[igorkrupitsky]

I totally agree with Penn & Teller. However, free trade is not the only solution.. Free travel and intermarriage is another solution. If you have relatives in another country you are less likely to want to wipe that country from the face of the earth.

[kindpastor]

Do you know what "ethnocentrism" is? That is when an individual judges the standards of another country by the standards of his own. If the child labor you speak of did not exist, most children in developing countries would be far worse off working as farmers or prostitutes. Idealism requires an "ideal" AKA an imaginary vision of what is "good". You will always run into trouble attempting to mold the real world to this imaginary ideal.

[ThePythagoran]

@SSTTEEAALLTTHH yeah, the only problem is that as soon as you removed one government there will be plenty of sociopaths grabbing for that brass ring. call me cynical, but i don't think we will ever be ableto end the state, as evil as it may be.

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

Here's the secret for world peace: anarchism.

Who causes all the wars and genocides, who is responsible for the most violence in this world? Governments and their drones (military and police) that are willing to lay down their morality for silent obedient compliance.

[jkyet]

What about the people who make money out of wars. I understand this is not a majority, but they are powerful people who benefit from wars, like the conflict in Congo and companies getting cheaper Coltan because of it.

[17Spartacus76]

"If goods do not cross borders, armies will."

- Frederik Bastiat

Trade fosters peace, whodathunkit?? Wars are just raping and pillaging by another name.

[mtlk22]

@ratzskinakie

And once U.S. completely runs out of money, you think they won't find a reason to take over Saudi Arabia? Having a king run the country is perfect: all of a sudden the US realizes how much the king oppresses his own people and off they go to bring democracy to another country. Same thing is happening in Libya, and it will happen to SA, too.

[lynth]

@dutchbright

Ultimately war is a short-sighted and destructive activity and decreases overall wealth for all parties.

Nobody benefits from war in the long term.

Any sane person would oppose war ESPECIALLY when it comes to economy.

[rrekydoc]

True, financial interdependence may prevent wars, but lack of war is not WORLD peace, it is peace of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Without war, both domestic and transnational organized crime will still exist. Terrorism, genocide, and civil conflicts can and would remain a part of our reality.

If a single nation is brought down by any of those reasons, which it eventually will be, financial interdependence would cause other countries dependant on them to collapse.

Flaws aside, not a bad idea...

[fajabanan]

@dutchbright The ones who profit from war are fringe special interests who produce nothing that real people demand. Were it not for the fact that people aren't allowed to fully control their money due to taxation, these mobsters wouldn't make a dime off their dirty business. The political class and their affiliated interests are the only ones who profit. However, if war would mean the squandering of beneficial trade opportunities, it might be detrimental to the aforementioned thugs too.

[igorkrupitsky]

@major600 How Japanese Americans were in support of dropping the atomic bombs?