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    What do you think about it. Did we advance since that time?

    im not sure i understand the question... are you asking if we have advanced past the need to use might to make right ?
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    What I mean:
    Do you agree with the statement in the quote?
    Do you think that mankind is on the way to end war?

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    Mankind is on the way to ending global conflicts and is going to replace them with lots of small regional conflicts.
    In the future nations will not go to war, but rather ideals and religions and probably corporations will. It won't be war as we know it though, it will be a series of relatively small scale invisible wars of sabotage and public misinformation.

    As long as there are people in the world who cannot get what they want there will always be violence and when does a fight become a riot and a riot become a war?
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    Al Khalifah,

    UN does not seem to be the ideal that keeps the world togehter and even the NATO does not seem to have a common ideal anymore.

    What could be the common ideal that keeps people together? Or could it be a global threat like global warming?

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    What could be the common ideal that keeps people together? Or could it be a global threat like global warming?
    From past experiences, alliances between different groupings with conflicting interests only tend to be able to find common ideals where there is mutual benefit or a mutual threat.
    Global warming is a problem that will affect the whole world, but unfortunately I doubt it will be able to unite the world's peoples. What people need is an enemy to work against - nothing brings people together like a common enemy unfortunately - but it is not possible to unite everyone against someone because there is no one left to fight. Hopefully some other common cause will emerge in the future to unite the world, space exploration for example.
    Cowardice is to run from the fear;
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    Do you agree with the statement in the quote?

    its a bit to long to agree or disagree with, it seemed mostly correct, imo

    Do you think that mankind is on the way to end war?

    I think if we don't wipe ourselves out first, mankind will be able to stop warring with itself in a millenia
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    War is a loss for all parties. I do recognize that it sometimes is necessary, but it can never be the preferred choice.

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    "Armed conflict is the last arm of diplomacy."
    Cowardice is to run from the fear;
    Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
    Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
    But to hold the line anyway.

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