[QUOTE=The Controvert]
In my opinion, the downside is that humanity loses a bit of free will.
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Well, when we lock up a dangerous murderer and put him in solitary confinement, his free will is taken away too. I see the genie situation as no worse.
[QUOTE=Sam Stone]
I guess if there was enforced peace, it would kind of suck to be a North Korean, or an Iranian, or someone living in Darfur or any number of other crapholes in the world where the people are oppressed, terrorized, murdered, or subjugated.
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No . . . no, it definitely wouldn’t suck. Not for them.
To whom? The military industrial complex wants permanent war. The neocons have it all planned but they don’t come out quite right. Cheney said we will be at war for the foreseeable future. There are a lot of influental people who would hate to have war end.