Quote Originally Posted by Kaidonni
Plus, I think it'd be a really novel idea if we put all the world's leaders into a single room, with a fruit basket on a table in the middle, locked the door, and didn't unlock it until they'd settled their differences. There would be less conflict then.
I personally subscribe to the school of thought that says they'd all starve to death, and we'd just get new ones.

The point is that humans disagree. Everything is a disagreement, and the entire purpose of proper democracy is to reach a compromise. Unfortunately, compromises cannot always be reached to the benefit of the nation, which means conflict is eventually inevitable, in my opinion

Also, conflict, in my opinion, is fought on a cost-reward basis. If the nation predicts it will gain more than it will lose, it will go to war, and vice versa. The only true system for world peace is a system like MAD - if you do anything, you lose everything. Unfortunately, all it takes is one idiot - which, as you agree, is what a lot of humans are.