If you could guarantee world peace at the price of the free will of all humans, would you do it?

MamaBear

No. Peace that comes from "outside", done by force, is not peace, it is slavery. True peace comes from within, and is expressed from person to person. It cannot be guaranteed by law, although the law can ENCOURAGE it.

To eliminate free will in an effort to eliminate hatred, would also result in the elimination of true love. Only love brings true peace. Dictatorships only produce quiet, and only for a while.

Also, some of the things you mentioned, disease and famine in particular, are not necessarily the result of human action, and thus would not be eliminated by "wiping out" human free will. Weather and natural disasters cannot be controlled by men. No matter how "perfect" the society, there will always be earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, fires, floods, blights, droughts, crop failures.

e1war

So long as anyone wants to initiate force against another for any reason there will not be peace. This includes forcing someone to give up their hard earned money (taxes), forcing someone to not put certain things in their bodies (drug laws), forcing someone to live by the ways of your religion, etc.

RATM

Absolutely Not.

Brad Morris

That's an incredibly stupid question. There can be no peace without free will

j h

NO WAY F that

it would be too great a change from our current lifestyle.

Besides, if you have even a negligible amount of concern for other people you won't get far in life...

senior citizen

Glad to see eleven real Americans answering this and thinking more or less the way Benjamin Franklin and the rest of our forefathers did.

Bill

I'd let the NSA listen in to my phone calls just to see a terrorist rot in prision.

dragonfire

1 it would never happen
2 there will always be tryranny
3 there will always be unrest / war / famine
4 for your arguement, the rich would have to give up there money
5 and that means someone would HAVE to be in total control
6 and that takes alot of support
7 those who support would be eleet and thus have special privleges and advantages unafforded to the rest of the controlled masses
8 sooner or later a revolutinary is borne out of such masses
9 and you back to where you started, with famine, pestllance and war

hq3

I think by the words "free will" you mean "civil liberties"
In this case I would say definite NO!
World peace is overrated anyway. War drives progress both in terms of social organization and technological developments.
Civil liberties would be a high price to pay for something we don't need anyway.

Speedfreak

Never.

hmc121667

Since the questions is hypothetical, yes I would. No need for free will since the "law" would be established to protect me and others. My actions would come not from my ego mind but from knowing that the World is in order therefore I am in order.

The biggest example is the garden of Eden and the initial intention God had when he created it..

The Patriot

I would never sell human free will against world peace.
I think both are concilable. But there is a huge gap, to realize world peace. The problem is the New World Order. It's a world conspiracy and they want like you say offer world peace ,at the price of humanity free will of acting or thinking. They want to put brain implant on all humans, reducing the world population of 80 %, use mind control technologies on masses. use the martail law permanently, every crime would become terrorism, and it will become a nightmare because ther wouldnt have to make you a trial they could erases all traces of your existence, re-write the past, to control the present and the future, and far worse.

And all this **** will always be presented as a opprtunity for peace. They make war, they can stop it, to recreate it, to put fear in peoples and control them.

DNC Invert

Your question is a horrid oxymoron. Are you a liberal? Did your brains fall out of your "open mind?"

John J

no, to (probably mis)quote Franklin - "Those who would sacrifice their freedom for security deserve neither, and will get nothing."

I value my freedom too highly to give it up to anyone willing.

WorkingTxGirl

nope!

See Brave Heart.

We faught for freedom. There will never be peace without freedom to choose

3 legged cat

I think this may be the only realistic way to bring about world peace.

The answer really depends on what we will get in return for surrendering our free wills.

if we can get a benevolent, wise, united worldwide government that lets us live the way we want to live and yet be able to resolve conflicts without violence, then why not ? (I doubt this is possible though)

However if we get a toliterian, dictorial world society (think North Korea), then I don't think we'll want that.

elwoodo0oo

absolutely not - live without free will is not worth living - it is a vegetative state, no more......

jimmy h

It would never work. There are plenty of countries now that are trying it...and have been for centuries. They still have civil wars, they still have dissidents. People have brains, and even though it may seem like they don't use them all the time...they do. It is in our nature to ask questions, to aruge, to disagree.
And the Patriot Act is not an attempt to garner our free will, but an attempt to insure that we can continue to exercise out free will. And to attempt to continue our pursuit of happiness.

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